Assessment of prevalence of spine trauma at a tertiary care centre in Rajasthan: a CT scan based study

Abstract

Aim: To find out the epidemiology of spine trauma involving various spinal level by categorization based on CT scan and association of various factors on spine trauma in tertiary care centre in Rajasthan Material and Method: This is a observational study based on patients admitted in a tertiary care centre from 1st June 2019 to 31st May 2020 Results: During this study 204 patients are admitted and treated, out of which 167(81.86%) were male and 37(18.14%) were female. The most common mode of injury was Road traffic accident and most common injury was at thoracic spine level followed by lumber spine level. And most common affected age group was between 30 to 45 yrs. Most common associated injury was head injury followed by chest injury. Conclusion: In spine trauma cases there is not much variation than developed country as there is Road traffic accident also the most common mode of injury but differs from North east India where fall from height is most common mode of injury. Road traffic accident are more common in younger age group and fall from height is common in elderly group.