Índice de Trauma en el Hospital Mario Catarino Rivas, San Pedro Sula *

A prospective study of patients hospita- lized for trauma in the Hospital Mario C. Rivas, during a period of three months (June-August, 1994) was done. They were measured with the Revised Trauma Index, of 74 patients, 71 (95.9%) corres- ponded to the male sex and 71.7% were under forty years. The more frequent causal agents were: Stab wound (36.4%), fire arm (32.43%), and automovile accident (27.03%). The trauma was mild in 28.4%, severe in 51.4% and critical in 16%. It was multiple trauma in 35.1%, abdominal in 25.6%, head in 14.8%, thoracic in 13.5%, and extremities in 8.1%. Sixty two procedures were practiced. Thirteen patients (17%) had complications, the most frequent was wound infection (traumatic or surgical). Thirteen patients died (17%). The hospital stay was of 12.6 day.