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Table 1 Mechanisms of injury

From: Challenges of the management of mass casualty: lessons learned from the Jos crisis of 2001

Mechanism

 

No

%

Penetrating

   
 

Gunshot

203

52.2

 

Machete/knife cuts

161

41.4

 

Arrow impalements

14

3.6

Blunt

   
 

Clubs/sticks

44

11.3

Burns

   
 

Flame

7

1.8

Total

 

429

100*

  1. *: Some patients had injury by multiple mechanisms.
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World Journal of Emergency Surgery

ISSN: 1749-7922