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Table 3 Clinical characteristics of road traffic accident victims admitted to hospital emergency units in eight districts of Guinea from 2015 to 2017

From: Frequency, characteristics and hospital outcomes of road traffic accidents and their victims in Guinea: a three-year retrospective study from 2015 to 2017

Characteristics

N

(%)

Type of hospital

Public hospitals

27348

(98.5)

Private hospitals

403

(1.5)

Admission to hospital departments

No hospital admission

23240

(83.6)

Surgery department

2171

(7.8)

Orthopedic department

546

(2.0)

Intensive care unit

207

(0.7)

Neurosurgery department

17

(< 0.1)

Not recorded

824

(3)

Predominant type of injury

Soft tissue

21160

(76.2)

Facture

2682

(9.7)

Joint

377

(1.4)

Dislocation

295

(1.1)

Main anatomical site of injury

Head

10350

(37.3)

Lower limb

9179

(33.1)

Upper limb

5514

(19.9)

Chest

604

(2.2)

Abdominal –Lumbar

951

(3.4)

Location of fracture

Lower limb

1770

(6.4)

Upper limb

764

(2.8)

Mandible

164

(0.6)

Ribs

61

(0.2)

Glasgow Coma Score a

Normal

25769

(92.9)

Mild coma

1185

(4.3)

Heavy coma

327

(1.2)

Deep coma

201

(0.7)

Not recorded

269

(1.0)

  1. RTA Road traffic accident, Glasgow coma score- normal = 15; mild coma = 14–10; heavy coma = 9–7; deep coma = 6 = 3