Table 3.
Trauma aetiology and diagnosis in 2019 and 2020. (INC is incidental findings)
Aetiology | Year | TBI | Spinal | Cranial | INC | Nil | Total | % total | % change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Falls | 2019 | 247 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 38 | 314 | 59.6 | |
2020 | 175 | 8 | 18 | 12 | 56 | 269 | 61.6 | − 14.3 | |
High Falls | 2019 | 37 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 56 | 10.6 | |
2020 | 35 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 48 | 11.0 | − 14.3 | |
Assault | 2019 | 23 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 40 | 7.6 | |
2020 | 21 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 40 | 9.2 | 0 | |
RTC | 2019 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 33 | 6.3 | |
2020 | 22 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 34 | 7.8 | + 3.1 | |
Bicycle | 2019 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 19 | 3.6 | |
2020 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 17 | 3.9 | − 10.5 | |
Sporting | 2019 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 1.9 | |
2020 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.7 | − 70.0 | |
Other | 2019 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 2.7 | |
2020 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 2.5 | − 21.4 | |
Unknown | 2019 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 41 | 7.8 | |
2020 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 3.4 | − 63.4 | |
Total | − 17.1 |