The severity of fall injuries in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study

fall injuries constitute a major public health concern worldwide, contributing to over 646,000 deaths every year. The aim of this study was to determine the nature and severity of fall injuries at a tertiary hospital in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). we conducted a cross-sectional study at the K...

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Published in:The Pan African medical journal 2020, Vol.36 (152), p.152-152
Main Authors: Razik, Mohamed Abdel, Alslimah, Faisl Abdulmohsin, Alghamdi, Khalid Saeed, Altamimi, Mohammed Abdulaziz, Alzhrani, Adel Ahmed, Alqahtani, Naif Mutrik, Alshalawi, Sami Munahi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
accidental falls
Accidental Falls - statistics & numerical data
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Child
Child, Preschool
Cross-Sectional Studies
fall injuries
Female
glasgow coma scale
Humans
hypovolemic shock
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Injury Severity Score
Male
Middle Aged
saudi arabia
Saudi Arabia - epidemiology
Shock - epidemiology
Shock - etiology
Tertiary Care Centers
Trauma Severity Indices
Wounds and Injuries - epidemiology
Wounds and Injuries - etiology
Wounds and Injuries - pathology
Young Adult
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Summary:fall injuries constitute a major public health concern worldwide, contributing to over 646,000 deaths every year. The aim of this study was to determine the nature and severity of fall injuries at a tertiary hospital in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). we conducted a cross-sectional study at the King Khalid Hospital and Prince Sultan Centre for Health Care in Al Kharj. We recruited the patients and followed them through the triage, admission and discharge processes. We analyzed the participant´s clinical notes on the electronic health record (EHR) to obtain information relevant to the study, including the nature, cause, mechanism of injury, demographic characteristics and prognostic factors captured through the injury severity score (ISS), the Glasgow coma scale (GCS) and the presence or absence of shock. of 264 patients, most of the patients were children under the age of ten (25.7%), followed by young adults between the ages of twenty-one and thirty (18.2%). The ISS was associated with severe head, chest, skull, brain, scalp, rib, abdominal, pelvic and lower limb injuries. The GCS was associated with severe the head, chest, skull, brain and rib injuries (p
ISSN:1937-8688
1937-8688
DOI:10.11604/pamj.2020.36.152.23944