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An Epidemiological Study of Cut Throat Injury During COVID-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Care Centre

To find out incidence, prevalence, various modes and pattern of cutthroat injury during COVID-19 pandemic and compare with prior non pandemic period. To find out the various factor influencing the suicidal cutthroat and establish the temporal association of suicidal cutthroat with COVID-19 pandemic....

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Autores principales: Acharya, Souvagini, Dash, Rajat Kumar, Das, Aurobinda, Hota, Madhusmita, Mohapatra, Chittaranjan, Dash, Sarita
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7584311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33134155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12070-020-02239-4
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author Acharya, Souvagini
Dash, Rajat Kumar
Das, Aurobinda
Hota, Madhusmita
Mohapatra, Chittaranjan
Dash, Sarita
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description To find out incidence, prevalence, various modes and pattern of cutthroat injury during COVID-19 pandemic and compare with prior non pandemic period. To find out the various factor influencing the suicidal cutthroat and establish the temporal association of suicidal cutthroat with COVID-19 pandemic. It is a retrospective study of cutthroat patients who were managed in ENT Dept. VIMSAR, Burla, Sambalur, Odisha, India from 1st September 2019 to 31st August 2020. Source of information are casualty, IPD and OT registers and online data. Total cases were divided into group-A (prior to COVID-19 pandemic) and group-B (during COVID-19 pandemic) and analysed. Total 24 cutthroat injury cases were treated over 1 year in department of ENT, VIMSAR, Burla, which was 0.054% of total cases attended at casualty and 2.371% of total IPD patients treated. In GROUP-A, total 10 cases with M:F = 9:1,suicidal 4 cases (40%), homicidal 6 cases (60%), and no accidental cases were recorded. While in GROUP-B, total 14 case with M:F = 14:0, suicidal 9 cases (64.28%), homicidal 3 cases (21.42%) and accidental 2 (14.28%) cases were recorded. In our study majority of cases were male with M:F = 23:1. Common age group belongs to 20–30 years with LSES and farmer by occupation. Zone II injury had incidence of 70.83%. Homicide cases proportionally high during non-COVID period while suicide cases high during COVID-19 pandemic. Association of COVID-19 pandemic with suicidal cut throat injury is seems to be significant. Among predisposing risk factors for suicidal, depression during COVID-19 pandemic had seen in 53.84% of total suicidal cases. Incidence and prevalence of Cut throat injury is comparatively high in western odisha which again increases during months of July and August parallel to COVID-19 pandemic. The common mode of cutthroat injury is homicidal, which suddenly changes to suicidal during COVID-19 pandemic. More vulnerable groups were young unemployed male, farmers and labours. Cutthroat injury cases definitely increases during COVID-19 pandemic with most common mode of injury being suicidal attempt, which may be due to economical and psychological imbalances, due to loss of job and fear and social stigma for COVID-19 diseases.
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spelling pubmed-75843112020-10-26 An Epidemiological Study of Cut Throat Injury During COVID-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Care Centre Acharya, Souvagini Dash, Rajat Kumar Das, Aurobinda Hota, Madhusmita Mohapatra, Chittaranjan Dash, Sarita Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg Original Article To find out incidence, prevalence, various modes and pattern of cutthroat injury during COVID-19 pandemic and compare with prior non pandemic period. To find out the various factor influencing the suicidal cutthroat and establish the temporal association of suicidal cutthroat with COVID-19 pandemic. It is a retrospective study of cutthroat patients who were managed in ENT Dept. VIMSAR, Burla, Sambalur, Odisha, India from 1st September 2019 to 31st August 2020. Source of information are casualty, IPD and OT registers and online data. Total cases were divided into group-A (prior to COVID-19 pandemic) and group-B (during COVID-19 pandemic) and analysed. Total 24 cutthroat injury cases were treated over 1 year in department of ENT, VIMSAR, Burla, which was 0.054% of total cases attended at casualty and 2.371% of total IPD patients treated. In GROUP-A, total 10 cases with M:F = 9:1,suicidal 4 cases (40%), homicidal 6 cases (60%), and no accidental cases were recorded. While in GROUP-B, total 14 case with M:F = 14:0, suicidal 9 cases (64.28%), homicidal 3 cases (21.42%) and accidental 2 (14.28%) cases were recorded. In our study majority of cases were male with M:F = 23:1. Common age group belongs to 20–30 years with LSES and farmer by occupation. Zone II injury had incidence of 70.83%. Homicide cases proportionally high during non-COVID period while suicide cases high during COVID-19 pandemic. Association of COVID-19 pandemic with suicidal cut throat injury is seems to be significant. Among predisposing risk factors for suicidal, depression during COVID-19 pandemic had seen in 53.84% of total suicidal cases. Incidence and prevalence of Cut throat injury is comparatively high in western odisha which again increases during months of July and August parallel to COVID-19 pandemic. The common mode of cutthroat injury is homicidal, which suddenly changes to suicidal during COVID-19 pandemic. More vulnerable groups were young unemployed male, farmers and labours. Cutthroat injury cases definitely increases during COVID-19 pandemic with most common mode of injury being suicidal attempt, which may be due to economical and psychological imbalances, due to loss of job and fear and social stigma for COVID-19 diseases. Springer India 2020-10-23 2022-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7584311/ /pubmed/33134155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12070-020-02239-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Acharya, Souvagini
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Hota, Madhusmita
Mohapatra, Chittaranjan
Dash, Sarita
An Epidemiological Study of Cut Throat Injury During COVID-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Care Centre
title An Epidemiological Study of Cut Throat Injury During COVID-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Care Centre
title_full An Epidemiological Study of Cut Throat Injury During COVID-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Care Centre
title_fullStr An Epidemiological Study of Cut Throat Injury During COVID-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Care Centre
title_full_unstemmed An Epidemiological Study of Cut Throat Injury During COVID-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Care Centre
title_short An Epidemiological Study of Cut Throat Injury During COVID-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Care Centre
title_sort epidemiological study of cut throat injury during covid-19 pandemic in a tertiary care centre
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7584311/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12070-020-02239-4
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