Volume : IV, Issue : IV, April - 2015

EVALUATION OF ALL ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS CASES REACHING TO A TERTIARY CARE CENTER FROM A STATE HIGHWAY

Dr. Pradip Kumar Bhattacharya, Dr. Ajay Goenka, Mrs. Navya Guwalani

Abstract :

Road Traffic Accident (RTA) is one among the top five causes of morbidity and mortality in South-East Asian

countries as well as India1 and is the third major unnatural preventable deaths amongst all. Our aim is Retrospective evaluation of factor’s involved and common associations in victims of RTA in a state highway. This retrospective analysis was conducted
at Chirayu Medical College and Hospital (CMCH); situated on the Bhopal- Indore State Highway. The data of 450 RTA victims were collected
from Jan 2013-Dec 2014. Important parameters which were evaluated are socio-demographic profile, site and severity of injury, type of vehicle, time and weather of RTA, time to report to hospital, alcohol consumption and pre-existing disease conditions. Most of the victims were
young (45.77%) driving two wheeler (82.44%) in the age group of 16-30. Majority of the victims had serious injury (33.33%) where head was
the most common site of injury (56%). Most common time duration of occurrence of RTA was 12.00 pm to 12.00 am (68.66%) and majority of
the victims belonged to rural population (50.44%).

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Dr. Pradip Kumar Bhattacharya, Dr. Ajay Goenka, Mrs. Navya Guwalani EVALUATION OF ALL ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS CASES REACHING TO A TERTIARY CARE CENTER FROM A STATE HIGHWAY International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 4, Issue : 4 April 2015


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