TAILIEUCHUNG - Báo cáo y học: " Landmine injuries at the Emergency Management Center in Erbil, Iraq"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Landmine injuries at the Emergency Management Center in Erbil, Iraq. | Shabila et al. Conflict and Health 2010 4 15 http content 4 1 15 RESEARCH I CONFLICT AND HEALTH Open Access Landmine injuries at the Emergency Management Center in Erbil Iraq Nazar P Shabila1 Husen I Taha2 Tariq S Al-Hadithi1 Abstract Background Landmines can cause death injury and disability in addition to many indirect public health consequences. This study aimed at understanding the trends demography and other epidemiological characteristics of hospitalized landmine injured patients in Erbil governorate. Methods The case records of landmine injured patients who had been admitted to the Emergency Management Centre in Erbil city from July 1998 to July 2007 were reviewed and descriptively analyzed. Results Two hundred eighty five landmine injured patients were admitted to the center their mean SD age was years range 6-71 years were males nearly 50 were between 19 to 35 years of age and were civilians. Around 72 of victims sustained limb amputations lower limb and upper limb out of the total. The hospital mortality rate was . The number of admissions for landmine injury was steadily decreasing between July 1998 and July 2001 followed by prominent increase between July 2002 and July 2003. The highest proportion of admissions occurred in summer and majority of incidents occurred along the borders with Iran and Turkey . Conclusion Civilian male adolescents and young adults constituted the majority of hospitalized landmine victims in Erbil governorate. While a high proportion of victims sustained lower limb amputations upper limb amputations particularly among children and injury to head and face were relatively common which might be attributed to handling explosives. This emphasizes the need to examine the reasons behind handling explosives. Background Landmines have been used widely and indiscriminately throughout the world. They frequently result in devastating effects mainly among civilians in .

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