Time Trend, Different Patterns and Distribution of Skull Fractures in Road Traffic Accidents
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choosing this research to assess the relationship between mortality increases in Last year's and skull fractures in road traffic accidents.
Methodology: This is cross _sectional, analytical study conducted at Al-Nasiriyah city in mortuary of forensic medicine – Al-Hussain teaching hospital- Thi_Qar health directorate. The average number of head injury cases autopsies in the mortuary of forensic medicine in, Thi_Qar for period of last two years was considered as the baseline.
Results: trend in the types of fractures has remained almost the same during both 2021 and 2022. But there was (132.2%) increase in the number of different types of cars registered in in 2022 in comparison with that of 2021.
Conclusion: RTAs casualties and fatalities show increases during 2022 compared to that of 2021. The number of registered imported cars increased in parallel by (132.2%) during the same period _The most common types of casualties were skull fractures followed by lower limb fractures. Male preponderance was evident all through. _The commonest registered cause of RTAs was high speed followed by bad quality of roads and weather.
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