Epidemiological study of road traffic accident cases in emergency department of tertiary care centre of Eastern Nepal

Road Traffic Accident among Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Centre: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

“…In a similar study conducted in Nepal, the most common time duration of occurrence of RTA was reported to be 6-12 PM (62%), most common injury after RTA was head injury 64%. 7 These similar findings were seen in a study conducted at Karnali. 19 Among all the injured patients, 3.80% were dead.…”

“…Mortality among RTA cases was found to be 3.15%. 7 In another study, similar findings were seen. 18 The present study was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in a single centre, the result may not be generalised to other settings of Nepal.…”

“…The prevalence of road traffic accident was found to be 9.58% which was higher compared to other studies conducted in Eastern part of Nepal where the prevalence of RTA was reported to be 4% whereas the study conducted in India reported the prevalence to be 41.4%. 7,8 In a similar study, the prevalence of RTA was reported to be 33.2% with 77% male. 9 In our study also, the majority of the RTA victims were male (62.13%) and between 20-30 years (41.96%).…”

“…Similar findings were seen in a study conducted in the Eastern part of Nepal. 7 Similarly, the majority of them were married (61.04%) and belonged to a joint family (85.01%). Similar findings were seen in a study done in the western part of Nepal.…”

Epidemiology of traumatic spinal cord injury in Nepal: A systematic review

“…Another reason might be the terrain of the country -the northern part has hills and mountains, covering 77% of the total land leading to higher incidence of fall from cliffs and RTA. 29 Other findings related to etiology do not vary much from earlier studies. [30][31][32][33] Road traffic accident is the second highest etiology in many reports (composite mean as 17%), the highest in one reviewed study 15 and there is an increase in SCI caused by RTA in recent years by 8.3% (15% SCI patients due to RTA in the studies before 2017 compared to 23.3% SCI patients due to RTA in the studies in and after 2017); but it might not be enough to generalize that ranking of RTA etiology in Nepal will stand at the top, as reported in the studies from developed countries.…”