Table 1.
The most severely injured body part and mechanisms of injury
| Most severely injured body part | ||||||||
| Body part | Head | Chest | Spine | Limbs and pelvis | Abdomen | Multiple* | Other | Total |
| Median age (SD) | 5.7 (5.5) | 11.8 (5.5) | 13.2 (4.7) | 4.8 (4.7) | 11.6 (3.7) | 11.5 (4.7) | 5.8 (5.7) | |
| Median ISS (SD) | 17.0 (9.3) | 14.0 (9.0) | 9.0 (13.9) | 9.0 (2.6) | 13.0 (7.8) | 19.0 (12.8) | 25.0 (9.2) | |
| Males (%) | 1887 (66.5) | 326 (71.3) | 81 (53.3) | 3624 (59.8) | 465 (70.8) | 210 (68.0) | 162 (65.6) | 6755 (68.6) |
| Females (%) | 952 (33.5) | 131 (28.7) | 71 (46.7) | 1566 (30.2) | 192 (29.2) | 99 (32.0) | 85 (34.4) | 3096 (31.4) |
| Injury mechanism (n and column %) | ||||||||
| Road traffic incident | 992 (34.9) | 217 (47.5) | 42 (27.6) | 1118 (21.5) | 326 (49.6) | 225 (72.8) | 6 (2.4) | 2926 (29.7) |
| Fall >2 m | 379 (13.3) | 46 (10.1) | 45 (29.6) | 322 (6.2) | 49 (7.5) | 45 (14.6) | 2 (0.8) | 888 (9.0) |
| Fall <2 m | 881 (31.0) | 33 (7.2) | 47 (30.9) | 3100 (59.7) | 152 (23.1) | 10 (3.2) | 4 (1.6) | 4227 (42.9) |
| Shooting | 7 (0.2) | 6 (1.3) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.0) | 3 (0.5) | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 19 (0.2) |
| Stabbing | 12 (0.4) | 75 (16.4) | 2 (1.3) | 9 (0.2) | 18 (2.7) | 3 (1.0) | 2 (0.8) | 121 (1.2) |
| Blast | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.4) | 6 (0.1) |
| Blow | 363 (12.8) | 26 (5.7) | 12 (7.9) | 320 (6.2) | 88 (13.4) | 8 (2.6) | 2 (0.8) | 819 (8.3) |
| Burn | 1 (0.0) | 6 (1.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.3) | 8 (3.2) | 16 (0.2) |
| Other | 188 (6.6) | 41 (9.0) | 3 (2.0) | 236 (4.5) | 13 (2.0) | 9 (2.9) | 221 (89.5) | 711 (7.2) |
| Crush | 16 (0.6) | 7 (1.5) | 1 (0.7) | 78 (1.5) | 8 (1.2) | 7 (2.3) | 1 (0.4) | 118 (1.2) |
| Total | 2839 (100) | 457 (100) | 152 (100) | 5190 (100) | 657 (100) | 309 (100) | 247 (100) | 9851 (100) |
*Multiple injuries are defined as two or more body parts with injuries of equal severity.
ISS, Injury Severity Score.