Spectrum, Pattern, and Clinical Outcomes of Adult Emergency Department Admissions in Selected Hospitals of Western Ethiopia: A Hospital-Based Prospective Study

Table 5

Emergency room admission due to traumatic and toxicologic emergencies, in Nekemte, western Ethiopia, 2017.

	Frequency	Percent
Forms of traumatic injury (N = 483)
Contusion with intact skin surface	3	0.65
Soft tissue injury	47	9.71
Intracranial injury	41	8.40
Fracture	80	16.50
Dislocation	4	0.81
Foreign body obstruction	6	1.22
Burn	69	14.22
Falling accident	37	7.61
Road traffic accident	99	20.41
Machinery injury	6	1.22
Fighting	72	14.90
Other physical abuses	14	2.82
Sexual abuse	5	1.00
Toxicology (N = 33)
Suicide	12	22.20
Human bites	3	5.50
Animal bites	10	18.51
Insect bites	3	5.52
Organophosphate poisoning	18	33.30
Carbon monoxide poisoning	2	3.72
Drug overdose	3	5.51
Unidentified	3	5.49