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Abstract
The level of global small arms violence is enormous and the scale of human suffering it causes is immense. It causes at least hundreds of thousands of deaths and more than a million injuries each year, as well as permanent physical and psychological damage, destruction of families, lost productivity, and diversion of resources from basic health services.
The care of the injured patient remains one of the mainstays of emergency medicine practice. Emergency physicians play a vital role in the stabilization and diagnostic phases of trauma care.
The Egyptian revolution of 2011, Revolution of 25th January, took place following a popular uprising that began on 25th January 2011. Although predominantly peaceful, it was not without violent clashes between security forces and protesters.
Our study was a retrospective study carried out from January 1st 2011 to December 31st 2011.The aim of this study was to determine the incidence, patterns of injury, patient characteristics and modality of treatment of gunshot injury patients admitted to the Emergency Department of Alexandria Main University Hospital.
During this period, a total of 850 cases with gunshot injuries were admitted to the Emergency Department of Alexandria Main University Hospital. The mean age was 27.13±10.02 with a male to female ratio of 30.5:1 and encountered GSIs were most commonly from the East of Alexandria district.
The majority of cases were hemodynamically stable on presentation (90.4%) and most of our patients were fully conscious on presentation (95.3%).
The most common site of injury was extremities (45.4%) followed by head and neck (34.4%), the chest (10.6%) and the least common site was the abdomen (9.6%).
The Red Cross wound classification system was employed in our study to aid in documenting our experience with GSWs.