Table 3.
Injury details by operative (Op) or non-operative (Non) care and injury site for patients who were treated at UC San Diego from 2013–2019 after sustaining musculoskeletal injuries at the US–Mexico border
| All patients | Lower extremity | Upper extremity | Spine | Pelvis | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | Op | Non | All | Op | Non | All | Op | Non | All | Op | Non | All | Op | Non | |
| n = 168 | n = 115 | n = 53 | n = 114 | n = 91 | n = 21 | n = 37 | n = 15 | n = 18 | n = 42 | n = 11 | n = 24 | n = 10 | n = 5 | n = 3 | |
| Open Injuries n (%) | 34 (25.6) | 30 (26.1) | 13 (24.5) | 27 (23.7) | 22 (24.2) | 4 (19) | 23 (62.1) | 10 (66.6) | 11 (61.1) | 4 (9.5) | 1 (9.1) | 1 (4.2) | 2 (20) | 2 (40) |
0 (0) |
| Required ex-fixa, n (%) | 36 (21.4) | 36 (31.4) | 0 (0) | 36 (31.6) | 36 (39.6) | 0 (0) | 1 (2.7) | 1 (6.7) | 0 (0) | 2 (4.8) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Post-op follow-up, n (%) | 22 (13.1) | 21 (18.3) | 1 (1.9) | 19 (16.6) | 17 (18.7) | 2 (8.7) | 3 (8.1) | 2 (13.3) | 0 (0) | 1 (2.4) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (10) | 1 (20) | 0 (0) |
aExternal fixator