Concauses in injured people with fractures of members treated at the Legal Medicine Department of Ciego de Ávila
Abstract
Introduction: the crime of injuries constitutes a problem at the Legal Medicine Department of Ciego de Ávila province, given that in a group of patients with fractures of the limbs, the expected time of healing is extended.
Objective: to characterize the concauses that delayed bone consolidation in those injured with fractures of limbs who were tested for healing in the 2014-2016 triennium.
Method: a retrospective descriptive investigation was carried out in the Provincial Department of Legal Medicine of Ciego de Ávila, to a population of 82 injured persons aged 16 years or older with fractures of limbs whose bone consolidation took more than 30 days. Data were extracted from individual medical records.
Results: the age group of 21 to 40 years (46,3 %), the male sex (75,61 %) and the type of crime by quarrel (68,29 %) predominated over traffic accidents (31,71 % ). The predominant location of the fractures was in bones (57,32 %) with respect to the joints (42,68 %), and within the former the most frequent was in ulna and radius. Pre-existing concauses (62,20 %) prevailed over those that occurred (37,80 %) and no concomitants were identified. Among the preexisting ones, osteoporosis (29,27 %) predominated and among those that occurred, infection (23,17 %).
Conclusions: pre-existing concauses predominated over those that occurred and there was no concomitant concause. A primacy of osteoporosis was found as preexisting and infection as an occurrence.
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