J Korean Soc Traumatol.  2006 Jun;19(1):74-80.

Clinical Study of Old-aged Patients in Traffic Accidents and Admitted For Emergency Treatment

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  • 1Department of Emergency Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Korea. cprking@smc.samsung.co.kr

Abstract

PURPOSE: For prevention and suitable administration, the effect of age on the severity of injuries in traffic accidents should be considered when evaluating a patient, but there have not been enough epidemiological studies that evaluate the age factor in traffic accidents. For that reason, we investigated old-aged patients who were involved in traffic accidents (65 years old or more) and who were admitted to the emergency department of a college hospital in an urban city of Korea.
METHODS
We collected data from traffic-accident patients who came to the emergency room of a university hospital in Seoul from Jan.1, 2004 to Dec.31, 2005. We compared their abilities to ambulate and the RTSs (Revised trauma scores) by using a LSD (least significant difference), linear regression.
RESULTS
A total of 1460 patients were included. The mean RTS of all traffic-accident patients was 7.77+/-0.280. The scores for drivers and passengers, motor-cycle drivers and passengers, bicycle drivers and passengers, and pedestrians were 7.79+/-0.21, 7.78+/-0.22, 7.54+/-0.25, 7.77+/-0.20, and 7.80+/-0.21 respectively (p=0.000). There was no statistically significant difference between the RTS of patients over 65 years and that of other patients. In a regression analysis, the number of patients over 45 ages who were able to ambulate was lower than that of younger people, independently of other influencing factors (B=-0.330, R-square = 0.243, p=0.000).
CONCLUSION
We expected that RTS of old age group more than 65 years old will significantly lower than that of others, but there was no statistically significant difference.

Keyword

Traffic accidents; Motor vehicles; Revised trauma score; Age Factors

MeSH Terms

Accidents, Traffic*
Age Factors
Aged
Emergencies*
Emergency Service, Hospital
Emergency Treatment*
Epidemiologic Studies
Humans
Korea
Linear Models
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
Motor Vehicles
Seoul
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
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