Patients presenting with hand and wrist injuries to the emergency department of clinical and demographic characteristics

Upper extremity trauma are common cases which apply emergency department and particularly hand and wrist mostly effeckted. Such injuries are responsible for 10-30% of the cases which are applied emergency department. Usually male patients between 15-30 years of age apply emergency services for such as injuries and because of that their daily activities affected. Although rare, it may be associated with other systems of trauma in these cases are. In this study, records of hospitalized patients at orthopedics and traumatology service and plastic and reconstructive surgery services and the emergency services files of the patients who are admitted because of hand and wrist trauma to Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine, Emergency Department between 1 January 2014 - 31 December 2014 were reviewed. Clinical and demographic characteristics of the patients were retrospectively also operational requirements and results had studied. Firstly the register of emergency department are scanned and outpatient protocols of the patients who admitted to emergency department because of hand and wrist trauma were examined. By using the name and protocol number, emergency services patient examine cards are taken from archive and appropriate patients were included in the study. Patient data "Hand and Wrist Injury Form" was collected. In a 12 month study period a total of 600 patients were included. Patients with additional organ injury, major trauma were excluded from study. Isolated hand and wrist trauma, 474 cases were investigated. The study included 128 men, 346 women were included in the total of 474 patients. The average age of our patients was 21.8 ± 17.8. The mean age of 22.6 ± 16.6, while men's average age of women was 19.5 ± 20.5 Consequently, a major part of the patients that admitted to emergency department with a hand injury was consisted of working, young men. Majority of the injuries observed in the patients examined were the injuries due to inadvertency and lack of education, which can be prevented by taking simple but necessary measures and by disseminating the vocational training programs. Keywords: Hand trauma, Emergency services, Demographic characteristics, Work accident.