Muhammed Köroğlu, Mustafa Karakaplan, Emre Ergen, Kadir Ertem, İdris Çoban, Harun Köse, Neslihan Yücel, Murat Bıçakçıoğlu, Ayşe Belin Özer, Oya Olcay Özdeş, Hüseyin Utku Özdeş, Okan Aslantürk
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to describe the type and number of traumatic injuries seen after devastating earthquakes and to evaluate the difficulties experienced in the treatment process in a primary affected center. METHODS: Out of the 2176 patients who were treated in the emergency department, 372 (199 male and 173 female) patients with complete data were included in this single-center retrospective study. In addition to the demographic characteristics of the patients, orthopedic injuries, other organ system injuries, type of injury, treatments, mechanisms of injury, and time of presentation to the emergency department were recorded...
November 2023: Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica