Between 01.01.2009-31/12/2012, appli̇cati̇ons to the Gaziantep University Medical Faculty Hospital Emergency Service due to traffic accidents, which refers to the proportion of alcohol

The study of this thesis covers the traffic accidents occuring between 01.01.2009 -31.12.2012. 393769 patients applied to the emergency service but only 2290 patient files with traffic accident complaints were investigated. We concentrated on the role of the alcohol. The patients came to the emergency service mostly in june and august of the year, around 10 to 12 a.m. in the morning. Among this patients 595 of them screened for alcohol and 66 of these patient exceeded the alcohol level. Avarage age of the patients is 30.99±16.8 . Victims were mostly 15 to 25 age interval, 87.2 % of the patients were 50 years old and under. 71.5 % of the patients were men , 28.5 % women. The victims had mostly (22.2 %) head and neck injury and extremity injury(13 %). Most of the injury origins (46.6 %) were not known. After emergency intervention the patients were mostly ended up at the orthopaedic service. Among the injuries 18.7 % did not have bone fractures but 10.9 % lower extremity bone fractures. We did not find any data for the 50.8 % injuries whether or not therewere bone fractures. 16 patients(0.7 % ) out of 2290 patients were past away,65.7 % survived and there was no knowledge for 33.6 % whether or not survived.