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Etiology LIMBS TRAUMA In patients who consulted the RAFAEL University Children's Hospital Hainaut BULL 1ST MANIZALES SEPTEMBER 2004 TO MARCH 2005

Etiologia Del Trauma De Extremidades En Pacientes Que Consultaron Al Hospital Infantil Universitario Rafael Henao Toro De Manizales Del 1 De Septiembre De 2004 A Marzo Del 2005




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Giraldo, C., Giraldo, C. A., Latorre, E. L., Mejia, S. L., Montoya, V. E., Ocampo, D. M., Ocorro, N. X., Gonzalez, S. P., & Castaño Castrillon, J. J. (2007). Etiology LIMBS TRAUMA In patients who consulted the RAFAEL University Children’s Hospital Hainaut BULL 1ST MANIZALES SEPTEMBER 2004 TO MARCH 2005. Archivos De Medicina (Manizales), 14, 51-62. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.14.0.1394.2007
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Giraldo, C., Giraldo, C. A., Latorre, E. L., Mejia, S. L., Montoya, V. E., Ocampo, D. M., Ocorro, N. X., Gonzalez, S. P., & Castaño Castrillon, J. J. (2007). Etiology LIMBS TRAUMA In patients who consulted the RAFAEL University Children’s Hospital Hainaut BULL 1ST MANIZALES SEPTEMBER 2004 TO MARCH 2005. Archivos De Medicina (Manizales), 14, 51-62. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.14.0.1394.2007

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Carolina Giraldo
Cristian Alexander Giraldo
Elsa Lorena Latorre
Silvia Lorena Mejia
Victoria Eugenia Montoya
Diana Marcela Ocampo
Nini Ximena Ocorro
Sandra Patricia Gonzalez
Jose Jaime Castaño Castrillon

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Introduction: Accidents constitute one of the most important problems of public health around the world, because they cause a high mortality and permanent incapacity rate. Accidents happen generally because of environmental facts, circumstances and conditions that facilitates them and that, without exception, are preventable. Objective: Determine the most frequent trauma cause in kids extremities. Materials an methods: six hundred and fifty eight medical records were revised in rellation to the following variables: sex, age, district, place, company and activity realize in te accident moment, mechanism and type of the injurie, anatomic place affected and associated patologies.
Results: The promediate age of patient was 8.7 years with much more frecuency at the age of 12. the most significant number of consultations was in male sex (66.9%), when they were in company of friends (42.5%). The place of the most occurrence was in the street (54.3%) in the main accident mechanism was the falldrop (64.3%), the fracture was the type of the main injurie with a 55.4% and the anatomic place more
afected was superior member (70.5%) Conclusion: The main trauma causes in the extremities are variable, avoiding motrix
sequels in kids , in addition decreas the psicologic trauma in parents an kinds and the hospital expenses.

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