Evaluation of non-fatal vascular injury cases reflected to Eskişehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Forensic Medicine between 2015-2019.

In the forensic report, whether the injury includes "vascular injury" or not, the life-threatening situation is important for the judicial organs. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the vascular injury situation in the events related to forensic traumatology and to share the data with the literature, which was reflected in Eskişehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Forensic Medicine. In the 5-year period between 2015 and 2019, the cases with vascular injuries from the cases who applied to Eskişehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Forensic Medicine were retrospectively analyzed. Report contents and demographic data of the cases were evaluated. Vascular injury was determined in 52 (1.2%) of 4378 forensic cases evaluated within the scope of the study. 90.3% of the patients with vascular injury were male. Most frequently age group was 19-29 and 69.3% of the cases were sharp objects. The a. femoralis and its branches was the most frequently injured vessel (n=11). It was determined that it was 21.2%. The data obtained in the study were found to be compatible with the literature. It was thought that in-service trainings on this subject were important, especially for the emergency room physicians to be more attentive in issuing forensic reports, to take necessary measures to prevent them from being held responsible in cases of vascular injury and other forensic cases, to ensure the legal rights of the victims quickly and fairly.