ArticleWorld journal of surgery2016
Analysis of Risk Factors for Gunshot Wound Infection in a Nigerian Civilian Trauma Setting.
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- Gunshot Abdominal Injuries: A Report of Two Cases and a Review of the Literature.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Review
- Firearm Injury Among Children and Adolescents in Nigerian Civilian Trauma Setting: Prevalence, Pattern, and Implications for Prevention.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundSurvivors of firearm injury are at risk of wound infection. On average, civilian gunshot wound infection rates in developing countries are relatively high and almost on a par with infection rates in war trauma settings. Overall, there are limited data on civilian gunshot wound infection and its predisposing factors. The aim of this study was to determine the risk factors for gunshot wound infection in a civilian trauma setting of a developing nation. MATERIALS AND
methodThis was a retrospective analysis of data on the entire patients who presented in Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki with firearm injury from January 2005 to December 2014.
resultsThere were 196 patients, and wound infection was a complication in 58 (29.6 %) of them. The significant factors for high wound infection rate in univariate analysis were perforating wound (p < 0.001), high velocity injury (p < 0.001), haematocrit <30 % (p < 0.001), presence of fracture (p < 0.001), hollow viscus injury (p < 0.001) and injury to hospital arrival interval later than 6 h (p < 0.014). Anatomical site of injury correlated with infection rate (p < 0.001), highest rate (40.6 %) in lower extremity and least (9.1 %) in head and neck wounds. Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified haematocrit (p < 0.001), perforating wound (p < 0.021), presence of fracture (p < 0.043) and hollow viscus injury (p < 0.039) as independent predictors of gunshot wound infection.
conclusionThe independent predictors of infection identified in this study call for judicious replacement of blood loss and high priority accorded to perforating wound, fractures and hollow viscus injury in interventions aimed at reducing gunshot wound infection rate.
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