Pattern of Injuries in Blunt Trauma Abdomen

The present work is the culmination of three years of extensive study focusing on Blunt Trauma Abdomen (BTA). In conjunction with the Department of Emergency Services, the work was carried out and which formed the core dissertation work for MD Forensic Medicine. While pursuing cases of Blunt Trauma Abdomen different hue and shades of injury were encountered relational to offending weapon. This study has been able to give authoritative profile of Blunt Trauma Abdomen in broad perspective sweeping within its ambit age, gender, seasonal variation, offending weapon, culprit vehicle, height of fall etc., enabling the author to create a comprehensive portrait of trauma. Armed with this knowledge a graph for morbidity and mortality was plotted. Amazingly, false belief in traumatologists nurtured by the gravity of injury and reciprocal mortality has been quashed. Speed essentially matters in such cases. Providing timely medical aid assisted by high-end technological diagnostic tools lives can be saved despite multiple injuries involving multiplicity of solid organs.