Assessment of Pattern of Abdominal Injury over a Two-Year Period at St Paul’s Hospital Millenium Medical College and AaBET Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Study

Table 2

Clinical profile of abdominal trauma patients presented to SPHMMC/AaBET, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from January 2018 to December 2019.

Variable		Frequency	Percentage
Triage site	Red	40	24.2
	Orange	78	47.3
	Yellow-green	47	28.5
RTS -score	<or = 4	1	0.6
	>4	164	99.4
E-FAST	Positive	105	63.6
	Negative	44	26.5
	Indeterminate	3	1.8
	Not done	13	7.9
Types of abdominal injury	Blunt	80	48.5
	Penetrating	85	51.5
Causes of abdominal injury	RTA	53	32.1
	Stab	47	28.5
	Gunshot	34	20.6
	Falls	13	7.9
	Assaults	7	4.2
	Stick	5	3.0
	Stone	2	1.2
	Horn	3	1.8
	Blast	1	0.6
Associated injury	Multitrauma	23	15.3
	Chest	20	13.3
	Pelvic	7	4.7
	Extremity	6	4.0
	Head	4	2.7
	Spine	1	0.7
	None	89	59.3

RTS, Revised Trauma Score; E-FAST.