Leandro Fornias Machado de Rezende, Catarina Machado Azeredo, Daniela Silva Canella, Rafael Moreira Claro, Inês Rugani Ribeiro de Castro, Renata Bertazzi Levy, Olinda do Carmo Luiz
Sociodemographic and behavioral factors associated with physical activity in Brazilian adolescents
BMC public health
trauma leading cause mortality young adults often involvement abdomen report pattern treatment outcome abdominal trauma nigerian tertiary hospital retrospective observational study abdominal trauma cases managed university port harcourt teaching hospital port harcourt rivers state nigeria april 2008 march 2013 variables studied included sociodemographic mechanism type abdominal injury initial pretertiary hospital care haematocrit level presentation abdominal ultrasound scan treatment options operative findings outcome statistical analyses data performed using ibm spss statistics windows version 250 armonk ny usa total 63 patients abdominal trauma included mean age 281 70 years 16 60 years 55 cases 873 males mean injury arrival time 3375531 hours median revised trauma score 12 812 recorded among patients penetrating abdominal trauma seen 42 667 operative treatment performed 43 693 patients laparotomy hollow viscus injury predominant 3243525 postoperative complication rate 277 recorded 695 mortality type injury b 221 initial pretertiary hospital care b 259 rts b 101 age b 0367 respectively negative influence mortality hollow viscus injury frequently detected laparotomy abdominal trauma negatively influences mortality frequent use diagnostic peritoneal lavage detect cases need urgent surgical intervention strongly advocated lowmiddleincome setting