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Profile and Management of Musculoskeletal Injuries Associated With the Lushan Earthquake in 2013

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2016

Xuxu Chen ,
Tianfu Yang  and
Jian Li
Xuxu Chen*
Affiliation:
Department of Sports Medicine, Hong-hui Hospital, Xi`an Jiaotong University Medical College, Xi`an, Shaanxi 710054, PR China
Tianfu Yang
Affiliation:
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, PR China.
Jian Li
Affiliation:
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, PR China.
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Dr Xuxu Chen, Department of Sports Medicine, Hong-hui Hospital, Xi`an Jiaotong University Medical College, No. 555 East Youyi Road, Xi`an, Shaanxi 710054, PR China (e-mail: [email protected]).
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Abstract

On April 20, 2013, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Lushan County, Ya’an City, Sichuan Province in southwest China. West China Hospital of Sichuan University, the largest and best hospital in Sichuan Province, is located in the city of Chengdu—about 100 km from the epicenter—and provided medical treatment to a total of 400 seismic patients. In this article, we retrospectively investigated 199 patients with musculoskeletal injuries who were treated in the Department of Orthopedics. Based on the seismic intensity distribution map, injury-occurring locations were divided into 5 grade-related areas: IX, VIII, VII, VI, and ≤V grade-area. The characteristics of seismic injuries were analyzed according to the geographic distribution of victims. We found that the constituent ratio of injury causes significantly differed in different earthquake areas according to the seismic intensity. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018; 12: 408–410)

Keywords

musculoskeletal injuryearthquakeepidemiology
Type
Report from the Field
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , June 2018 , pp. 408 - 410
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2016 

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