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Abstract
Introduction: Injury is damage to the body or malfunction resulting from the sudden exposure of the human body to unbearable levels of energy. Injuries can be divided into intentional injuries, including violent attacks, self-mutilation or suicide, and unintentional injuries such as collisions, falls, drowning, poisoning and burns.Aim of study: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of unintentional injuries, the mechanism of injury, its type, risk factors and outcomes presented to Mansoura Main Hospital, Mansoura University, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt. And the allocation of resources that may be the basis for planning injury prevention strategies to reduce the problem.Subjects and methods: This study is a cross-sectional survey at the level of Mansoura Emergency Hospital, including 1000 injured cases, males and females, during the study period from July 2020 to December 2022. The study included the collection of social, demographic and health data, and a questionnaire about the types of injuries and accidents that led to them and the consequences that resulted from them. these injuries.Results: The results revealed that the most common injury is falling, followed by road accidents, burns, poisoning, other injuries, blunt objects, stab wounds, drowning and suffocation, and finally sexual injuries. In males, road traffic injuries were the most common mechanism, followed by falls. While the fall was more common among females, followed by road accidents, and fracture was the most common injury among both sexes. The highest rate of injury was among males in the streets, and 6 percent of them were killed. While 50 percent of the females at home were infected and 2.3 percent of them died. Infected children accounted for 27.6% of all infections studied, and a third of them were less than 5 years old.Conclusion: The rates of hospitalization and death due to road accidents are higher among adolescents. Predictors of road accidents among teens and young adults are: vacation times, multiple injuries, byways, and motorcycles. The independent predictors of hospitalization in general were alertness, altered consciousness, deep or organ injury, burns, concussion, multiple site injuries, fractures, old age, complex trauma, emergency hospitalization by ambulance, trunk and pelvic injuries, and pediatric casualties. While the independent predictors of death are: concussion, stroke, complex injury, altered consciousness.