During the past one year period from June 1987 to March 1988, 151 cases of emergency patients visiting the pediatric emergency room of Seoul National University Hospital were analyzed. Statistical analyses of pediatric emergency patients were summarized as follows ;
1) The age distribution of the patients was as follows
infantile period(9.9%), toddler period(55.6%), pre-school age(17.2%), school age(16.6%).
2) In sex distribution, males predominated over females in the proportion of 65.6% to 34.4%.
3) In monthly distribution, the most predominant month was May(17.9%) and the least was
November(3.3 %) .
4) The accident mainly occurred in the daytime(from 6 AM to 6 PM). The daytime accidents occupied 74.8% of all.
5) In the infantile period, all accidents occurred indoors but the outdoor accidents were increased as the patients became old.
6) Patrons were present in 53.6% of all cases, especially in the infantile period, the presence rate of patron reached 73.3%.
7) The causes of the trauma were fall-down injuries, injuries by the furniture, and injuries by the vehicle(toys, daily commodities...) etc.
8) The most frequent site of the trauma was head and neck region(forehead, eye-lid, lip, chin, intraoral, nose in order).
It occupied 74.2% of all cases.
On the basis of the above analyses, we can have taken some precautionary measures against the pediatric accidental trauma.
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