The institutional demographic profile of amputation in Mumbai.

Amit Mhambre; Vivek Chawathe; Anil Kumar Gaur; Rajendra Sharma; Vivek Pusnake; Ameya Joshi

Volume : VII, Issue : VIII, August - 2017

The institutional demographic profile of amputation in Mumbai.

Amit Mhambre, Vivek Chawathe, Anil Kumar Gaur, Rajendra Sharma, Vivek Pusnake, Ameya Joshi

Abstract :

Amputation is a locomotor disability and final outcome of various co morbidities of traumatic and non traumatic causes. The aim is to conduct a retrospective observational study using records of patients attending disability clinic from 1^st January 2016 to 31^st December 2016 to study the common types, causes, extremity affection, gender and age group in amputation. In the study we evaluated records of 994 patients of which 171(17.2%) were amputations, with a male to female ratio of 5.6:1, with 15.2% of double limb amputation. Our study showed maximum number of amputations were below knee (39%) followed by partial hand (18%).The study also showed maximum number of amputations occurred in age group of 51 to 60 years. The study concluded that prevalence of amputations is high in urban population. The knowledge about rehabilitation in amputees was less, warranting attention to create rehabilitation infrastructure for improvement in their lifestyle.