1 year of traumatologic activity in the Emergency Orthopedic Unit of the G. Pini Institute (statistical data)

The Authors have considered one year's traumatological activity in the G. Pini Institute's S.T.U. by drawing some statistical results. The data refer to the traumas ambulatorium-treated and to all those which required hospitalization during 1979. The total of the traumas surveyed in 1979 is 33335 of which 1812 required urgent hospitalization (5.44%). Previous statistics show 6679 patients in 1961 and 3209 in 1956. We can realize how these figures have increased in a few years (and in this abstract the different kinds of traumas are also highlighted) without any adjustment to the existing structures and equipment which are completely insufficient.