COMPARATIVE STUDY OF POLYTRAUMA WITHIN A GROUP OF 2004 PATIENTS (PEDIATRICS AND YOUNG ADULTS)

Abstract

Globally, there are many efforts to reduce the incidence of road accidents. However, the number of patients hospitalized with polytrauma is still high, with approximately 5.8 million deaths associated with traumatic injuries annually. Among the young, active age population, trauma is the current domain and timing a major cause of severe illness.
Therefore we aimed by this study to evaluate comparatively the incidence of polytraumas among young adult patients presented in the Emergency - department (information obtained from the archive of the Emergency Clinical Hospital Sfântul Apostol Andrei Galați – 129 young patients) and pediatric subjects from a group of 710 children.
The data obtained following the anamnesis, the clinical and paraclinical examination of the patients, were entered into the IBM SPSS Statistics 24 and Excel 2019, then sorted and filtered according to different criteria. In both groups, the incidence of male patients is statistically noticeable and also aspects regarding high frequency according to definite spring seasonality, and paraclinical, clinical, and sociodemographic elements.