Assessment of Pattern of Abdominal Injury

St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia

Status

Completed

Conditions

Abdominal Trauma

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05538390

StPaulsHMMc

Details and patient eligibility

About

This hospital-based cross-sectional study was done at SPHMMC and AaBET hospitals from January 2018 to December 2019.The study aimed to assess the pattern of abdominal injury at St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC) and Addis Ababa Burn, Emergency and Trauma (AaBET) hospital, Addis Ababa Ethiopia.Data was collected from the trauma registry and patient files using a pretested structured questionnaire filled out by two trained data collectors.The collected data was entered and analyzed using statistical software SPSS version 25.0.

Full description

Data was collected from the trauma registry and patient files using a pretested structured questionnaire filled out by two trained data collectors. The questionnaire was categorized into socio-demographics (age, sex, residency, and address), clinical profile (triage, v/s, type of injury, associated injury), management, and outcome (management, complication, disposition, and mortality). Completeness of data was checked by the principal investigator.

Enrollment

165 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria