Kaza ile üzerine cisim düşmesine bağli hastaneye başvuran hastalarin değerlendirilmesi Evaluation of patients who admitted to hospital due to accidentally falling objects on them

Objective: Accidents at home, office, or outdoor environ ment are one of the leading cause of injury and death, especially in children. The aim of this study is the evaluation of patients admitted to our hospital due to the falling on an object accidentally. Methods: This study retrospectively assessed the medical records of 135 patients who were accidentally injured by a heavy object that fell on them between 2012 and 2014. Age, sex, object type as the cause of incident, site and time of the incident, and the death cause were analyzed. Results: Eighty-two (60.7%) patients were male and 53 (39.3%) were female and the mean age of the study population was 18.8 (0-79) years. The patients were most commonly from the pediatric age group (0-18 years old) (n=78, 57.8%). When falling objects types are evaluated respectively dropping on a television with 18.5% (25 patients), stone(s) with 15.6% (21 patients) and objects made of iron with 11.1% (15 patients) shares first three places. The most common sites of the incident were home (n=85, 62.9%). The incidents most commonly occurred in summer months (n=93, 68.9%).