Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Community-Based Severe Trauma Survey
Increasing number of falls and falls due to aging population
Over the past eight years, the fatality rate due to severe trauma has decreased, but the disability rate has increased.
According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency’s community-based severe trauma survey on the 27th, the fatality rate of severe trauma patients decreased from 65.5% in 2015 to 52.5% in 2023. The fatality rate decreased for two consecutive years, from 56.6% in 2021 to 55.2% in 2022 and 52.5% in 2023.
‘Severe trauma’ refers to trauma caused by transportation accidents, falls, slips, etc., with an injury severity score of 16 or more, or cardiac arrest or death before arriving at the hospital.
On the other hand, the disability rate increased from 64.1% to 77.4% and the severe disability rate increased from 31.6% to 36.3% during the same period. Both the disability rate and the severe disability rate have increased for four consecutive years since 2019.
In the past, many injured patients were involved in transportation accidents, but due to the aging population, the number of patients with falls and falls has been increasing recently.
According to the in-depth discharge injury survey, in 2004, which was the subject of the first survey, there were 669 transport accident patients per 100,000 people, which was more than 463 fall/fall patients, but in 2022, there were 998 fall/fall patients, 444 transport accident patients. There were more.
In an in-depth survey of injured patients in the emergency room, falls and falls were the most common at 37.8%, followed by collisions at 19.4%, transportation accidents at 13.1%, and penetrating injuries at 10.6%.
On this day, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency will hold an international symposium marking the 20th anniversary of the National Damage Investigation and Surveillance System at Seoul National University Children’s Hospital. At this symposium, the background to the enactment of laws on damage prevention and management, the establishment of a comprehensive damage management plan, and the establishment of central and regional damage control centers will also be disclosed.
In addition, presentations by domestic and foreign experts will follow on the topic of damage prevention management and response systems. A government award will be given to 50 people who actively participated in the national damage investigation and surveillance project and contributed to damage prevention.
Director Ji Young-mi of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said, “In order to establish an effective damage prevention and management strategy, scientific basis must first be prepared through the national damage investigation and surveillance project,” and added, “We will upgrade the national damage investigation and surveillance system to identify damage status and risk factors in detail.” “And we will discover customized prevention and management projects for each stage of life.”
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