Abstract

Background: To study  epidemiological  behaviour  of  spine  fracture  patterns  in adult patients attending  to  a  tertiary  care  hospital  and  their  analysis  with  respect to  age ,gender, mode of trauma, neurological  deficit if any  and associated  injuries.

Materials and Methods:  All patients with acute spinal injury admitted to our hospital from May 2016 to December

2018 were included in this study. Each case was analysed with respect to given variables (age, gender, mode of injury, neurological deficit and associated injuries)

Results:  There were 430 patients of acute spine trauma (260 males, 170 females in the age group 18 and above with mean age of 38.3 years) admitted in our orthopaedics department over 32 months period. 6.5 percent mortality was seen in patients admitted to the department. Lumbar spine injuries were more common followed by dorsal spine and cervical spine with thoracolumbar region accounting for most of the injuries.

Conclusions: Our study demonstrates relevance between spine fracture patterns and their mode of injuries.

Most patients were in the middle age group (31-40 years) with falls accounting for about 53.4% of injuries

Keywords:  Spine trauma, Mode of trauma, Neurological deficit, thoracolumbar.