Abstract
Background: Fractures in children can be caused by a long term disability and decreasing quality of life in every people that involved. Factors that affect fractures incidences must be identified so that we can create prevention management. This study aims to evaluate the fractures pattern of children in orthopaedic and traumatology in dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo Central General Hospital Makassar.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among children under 19 years old by collecting a medical record of patients. The prevalence and patterns of fractures were reviewed for details, such sex, range of age, causes, place of injury, single or multiple fractures, types or location of single fracture, and treatment of fractures. Data were analysed using SPSS version 17 for Windows.Results: There were 152 children in the study, and 72.3% were boys. Most common occur at the 12-18 years age group (92.8%), most of them were caused by traffic accidents (73.6%). Consequently, the location in which fractures were most prevalent was the street (76.9%). Most of them were presented as a single fracture (72.3%) dominated by closed fracture (63.6%), while distal radius/ulna (12.7%) was the most common fracture sites in this study and most patients have undergone surgery for their treatment (84.8%).Conclusion: Most of the patients were boys and caused by traffic accidents. A single and close fracture were the most common types of fracture.
Highlights
Fractures often happened in children and adult
Study conducted by Riset Kesehatan Dasar Indonesia 2013, showed that prevalence of trauma in Indonesia was 8.2%, the highest number was in South Sulawesi (12.8%), and the lowest was in Jambi (4.5%)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the fractures pattern of children in orthopaedic and traumatology in dr
Summary
Fractures often happened in children and adult. Fracture mostly caused by trauma.[1]. The first epidemiological study about fractures in children was conducted in the late 19th Century. This study was done by Beekman and Sulivan in New York, and Lichtenberg, Nebraska, USA, involving 2000 fractures in children cases. 8682 fractures cases were involved in his study for over 30 years in Sweden. Landin investigated the correlation between age and gender with patterns and types of fractures.[3,4]. Fractures in children can be caused by a long term disability and decreasing quality of life in every people that involved. This study aims to evaluate the fractures pattern of children in orthopaedic and traumatology in dr. The prevalence and patterns of fractures were reviewed for details, such sex, range of age, causes, place of injury, single or multiple fractures, types or location of single fracture, and treatment of fractures.
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