Table 2 Diagnoses by body region of 3,177 injury diagnoses registered at People's Hospital of Deyang City after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, China
Body region | Head | Neck | Thorax | Abdomen | Lower back | Pelvis | Shoulder, upper arm | Elbow, forearm | Wrist, hand | Hip, thigh | Knee, lower leg | Ankle, foot | NOS | Total, no. (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Injury diagnoses | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Contusion | 363* | 0 | 62 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 20 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 506 (15.9) |
Superficial injury NOS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 265 | 278 (8.8) |
Laceration†| 42 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 145 | 35 | 0 | 271 (8.5) |
Fracture | 109 | 9 | 228 | 0 | 130 | 116 | 136 | 82 | 56 | 146 | 327 | 137 | 0 | 1476 (46.5) |
Dislocation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 49 (1.5) |
Sprain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 (0.1) |
Injury of organs, soft tissues and NOS | 200‡ | 1 | 122§ | 105 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 435 (13.7) |
Crush injury | 13 | 0 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 19 | 0 | 112 (3.5) |
Amputation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 37 (1.2) |
Burns (second degree) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.1) |
Compartment syndrome | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 (0.2) |
Total, no. (%) | 727 (22.9) | 10 (0.3) | 433 (13.6) | 135 (4.2) | 151 (4.8) | 120 (3.8) | 161 (5.1) | 89 (2.8) | 98 (3.1) | 208 (6.5) | 560 (17.6) | 213 (6.7) | 272 (8.6) | 3177 |