Analysis of trauma cases and treatment on 246 patients caused by the Yushu earthquake

Objective To analyze 246 traumatic cases suffered from Yushu earthquake admitted in Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital and summarize the treatment characteristic for providing reference for future earthquake medical treatment. Methods Sorted clinical data of the traumatic cases admitted in Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital from the day after the earthquake to 20 days after the earthquake in Yushu,and analyzed general information,concrete trauma type and treatment characteristics. Results Among 246 traumatic cases,including 133 cases male ( 54. 1% ) ,113 cases female ( 45. 9% ) ,177 cases Tibetan ( 72. 0% ) ,59 cases Han Chinese ( 24. 0% ) ,8 cases Muslim ( 3. 3% ) ,2 other minorities ( 0. 8%) ,17 cases greater than 80 years old and less than 10 years old ( 7. 7%) ,174 cases were admitted in hospital within 3 days after earthquake ( 70. 7% ) ,239 cases were injured ( 97. 2% ) ,147 cases involved orthopedic treatment ( 59. 8% ) . All cases' wounds and surgical incisions were healed and fracture fixations were satisfied. None of them developed gas gangrene and amputation. Conclusions It was difficult to transfer the patients suffered from Yushu earthquake,most of them were transferred by aircraft; there were large number of traumatic cases; hospitalization time were centralized,most of them were Tibetans and young adults; there were much more patients with multiple injuries and multiple injuries and most of the theminvolved in orthopedic treatment.