Two Years Retrospective of Trauma Incidents presented to Emergency Department, JDWNRH. (Jan 2014-Dec 2015)

Abstract

Trauma is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in population worldwide. When the patient is received
in trauma unit, first consideration always goes to life-threatening injuries, open wounds, and radiologically
visible injuries. Emergency department in JDWNRH is the apex hospital in the capital (Thimphu) and had been
functioning as one of the emergency medical centers and serves for all the emergencies of Bhutan. The study was
about analysing all trauma and injured cases presented to emergency department of JDWNRH within 2 years
(January 2014- December 2015) retrospectively. It is an observational and descriptive statistic on demographic
profile, time of the presentation, types of injuries which will be useful in assessing the impact by various injuries
in the population and the development of preventive measures. Beside fall injury, the road traffic accident had
been increasing in the capital city. The numbers are not significantly high for other injuries but, the impact from
individual injury is noticeably substantial as there were admission to the wards, ICU, OT, and several were even
brought dead. Statistically, men were twice the number of women even though there are women who were
injured. Frequent prevention and promotion are essential as it can potentially reduce the incidence of emergency
visit. Through zero tolerance day, the number had reduced as presented in the chart, however, the prevalence of
trauma remained high