Background: Blunt abdominal trauma is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among all age groups. Many injuries may not manifest during the initial assessment and treatment period. Injury to intra-abdominal structures can be classified into 2 primary mechanism of injury-compression forces and deceleration forces. Compression or concussive force may result from direct blows or external compression against a fixed object. Deceleration forces causes stretching and linear shearing between relatively fixed and free objects.Methods: A prospective study of 48 patients admitted with blunt abdominal injuries in the department of surgery, B.R.D. Medical College Gorakhpur during a period of 1 year.Results: Majority of patients of blunt abdominal injuries in present study were in 11-20 year of age group followed by 31-40 year of age group followed by 41-50 year of age group. Female to male ratio was 7:1. In the present study 41% of patients were subjected to non-operative management.Conclusions: Males were pre-dominantly affected. Road traffic accident was the most common cause of injury. Though conservative management is successful in carefully selected patients, operative management remains the main stay of treatment.
Blunt Abdominal Trauma With Hollow Viscus and Mesenteric Injury: A Prospective Study of 50 Cases
