The Clinical Profile Of Occupational Accidents Admitted To Emergency Department

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the the sociodemographic features, injury types, injury regions and hospital costs of the patients who admitted to emergency department due to occupational accidents. Material and methods: This study includes 659 patiens who applied with occupational accident to emergency department between 1st of April 2014-31st of March 2015. The demographic data of patients with injury, types of injury, mechanisms of injury, trauma scores and hospital costs were investigated. Results: 96.3% of the cases were male. The most frequent admission was betwen the ages 26-35. The most frequent cause of admission was “fall over something”. Mortality was observed in two of the patients; there were more than one regional injury in both of the patients. The hospitalization rate was 7.1%. There was only simple soft tissue injury in 48.1% of the patients; following with laceration 28.2%. The median ISS score was 1 (range 1-75), NISS score was 1 (range 1-75), RTS score was 7.84 (1.96-7.84). The median of the hospital cost was 27.9$ (range 7.0$-4744.2$). Conclusion: Occupational injuries could be reduced by education and precautions against accidents; also the educations have to be repeated regularly according to the danger class of the work