06 October 2023 : Clinical Research
Pediatric Emergency Response in a Non-Epicenter Hospital during the 2023 Turkey-Syria Earthquake: A Retrospective Study of 125 Cases in the First 20 Days
Süeda Zaman
1ABCEF, Selahattin Gürü 2ACDEF*
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.942008
Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e942008
Table 2 Injury type, body zone injured, traumatic diagnoses, surgical treatments of pediatric aged patients admitted to non-epicenter Ankara Mamak State Hospital with trauma-related injuries, in first 20 days following the February 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes.
| Penetrating | 17 (73.9) |
| Blunt | 6 (26.1) |
| # | |
| Lower extremity | 10 (43.5) |
| Head | 8 (34.8) |
| Upper extremity | 3 (13.0) |
| Spinal vertebra | 2 (8.7) |
| Thorax | 2 (8.7) |
| Soft tissue injuries | 16 (69.6) |
| Skin incision | 5 (21.7) |
| Bone fracture | 1 (4.3) |
| Intrathoracic organ damage | 1 (4.3) |
| Wound dressing | 15 (65.3) |
| Primary suture | 5 (21.7) |
| Plaster splint | 2 (8.7) |
| Corset | 1 (4.3) |
| n – number of patients; ED – Emergency Department; Continuous variables were presented as “mean±SD (minimum–maximum)” and categorical variables as “number (percentage of column)”; # There is more than one in a patient, percentage calculated on the number of patients. | |