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Age-related injury patterns resulting from knife violence in an urban population
Interpersonal violence involving knives is a major public health problem. The majority of patients are young people in urban areas, but little is known about age-specific patterns of injury and recent trends in injury characteristics. We performed a retrospective cohort study of all patients present...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9512781/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36163382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17768-x |
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author | Vulliamy, P. Hancorn, K. Glasgow, S. West, A. Davenport, R. A. Brohi, K. Griffiths, M. P. |
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description | Interpersonal violence involving knives is a major public health problem. The majority of patients are young people in urban areas, but little is known about age-specific patterns of injury and recent trends in injury characteristics. We performed a retrospective cohort study of all patients presenting to an urban major trauma centre with stab injuries resulting from assault between 2012 and 2018. A total of 3583 patients were included. Young people (age under 25) were more likely to have sustained multiple stab wounds compared to older people (43% vs 35%, p < 0.001) and had significantly higher rates of stab injuries involving the lower limbs, groin and buttocks. The annual number of injuries increased steadily during the study period in patients aged under 25 (r(2) = 0.82, p = 0.005) and those over 25 (r(2) = 0.95, p < 0.001). Over time, limb and junctional injuries accounted for an increasing proportion of stab wounds in young people, overtaking torso injuries as most common pattern of injury by the end of the study period. These findings illustrate the influence of age on injury patterns resulting from knife violence, and support the expansion of outreach initiatives promoting bystander-delivered haemorrhage control of extremity wounds. |
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spelling | pubmed-95127812022-09-28 Age-related injury patterns resulting from knife violence in an urban population Vulliamy, P. Hancorn, K. Glasgow, S. West, A. Davenport, R. A. Brohi, K. Griffiths, M. P. Sci Rep Article Interpersonal violence involving knives is a major public health problem. The majority of patients are young people in urban areas, but little is known about age-specific patterns of injury and recent trends in injury characteristics. We performed a retrospective cohort study of all patients presenting to an urban major trauma centre with stab injuries resulting from assault between 2012 and 2018. A total of 3583 patients were included. Young people (age under 25) were more likely to have sustained multiple stab wounds compared to older people (43% vs 35%, p < 0.001) and had significantly higher rates of stab injuries involving the lower limbs, groin and buttocks. The annual number of injuries increased steadily during the study period in patients aged under 25 (r(2) = 0.82, p = 0.005) and those over 25 (r(2) = 0.95, p < 0.001). Over time, limb and junctional injuries accounted for an increasing proportion of stab wounds in young people, overtaking torso injuries as most common pattern of injury by the end of the study period. These findings illustrate the influence of age on injury patterns resulting from knife violence, and support the expansion of outreach initiatives promoting bystander-delivered haemorrhage control of extremity wounds. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9512781/ /pubmed/36163382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17768-x Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This 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/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Vulliamy, P. Hancorn, K. Glasgow, S. West, A. Davenport, R. A. Brohi, K. Griffiths, M. P. Age-related injury patterns resulting from knife violence in an urban population |
title | Age-related injury patterns resulting from knife violence in an urban population |
title_full | Age-related injury patterns resulting from knife violence in an urban population |
title_fullStr | Age-related injury patterns resulting from knife violence in an urban population |
title_full_unstemmed | Age-related injury patterns resulting from knife violence in an urban population |
title_short | Age-related injury patterns resulting from knife violence in an urban population |
title_sort | age-related injury patterns resulting from knife violence in an urban population |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9512781/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36163382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17768-x |
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