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Published: 28/10/2009

Trauma Stats

Auckland Hospital Trauma Admission by month for 2009

Auckland Hospital Trauma Admission by month for 2008

Auckland Hospital Trauma admissions for the 11 years ending December 2005.
NB. This does not include fractured neck of femurs due to pathological conditions such as osteoporosis.

Admissions by Cause of Injury

Cause of Injury
	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Motor Vehicle	366 23.8%	354 23.9%	361 25.1%	343 25.4%	281 21.5%	266 19.3%	238 17.8%	240 19.6%	204 17.9%	190 16.0%
Motor Cycle	116 7.5%	97 6.5%	86 6.0%	84 6.2%	72 5.5%	62 4.5%	73 5.4%	65 5.3%	62 5.5%	66 5.6%
Pedestrian	81 5.3%	68 4.6%	64 4.5%	65 4.8%	57 4.4%	56 4.1%	63 4.7%	44 3.6%	51 4.5%	54 4.5%
Gunshot	7 0.5%	7 0.5%	2 0.1%	4 0.3%	5 0.4%	3 0.2%	4 0.3%	2 0.2%	7 0.6%	9 0.8%
Stabbing	76 4.9%	91 6.1%	89 6.2%	66 4.9%	92 7.0%	70 5.1%	85 6.3%	96 7.8%	73 6.4%	89 7.5%
Fall	584 37.9%	609 41.1%	577 40.2%	553 41.0%	536 40.9%	628 45.6%	592 44.2%	539 43.9%	469 41.2%	470 39.5%
Other	310 20.1%	255 17.2%	257 17.9%	234 17.3%	266 20.3%	293 21.3%	285 21.3%	241 19.6%	271 23.8%	311 26.2%
Total	1540	1481	1436	1349	1309	1378	1340	1227	1137	1189

Admissions by ISS Score

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Less than 16	1300	1263	1221	1119	1079	1152	1156	1029	932	945
16 to 24	141	119	112	140	120	130	112	105	118	152
25 to 40	81	84	84	78	85	67	62	81	77	86
41 to 49	8	8	11	5	9	5	6	4	9	5
50 to 74	10	6	7	7	5	3	2	4	2	2
75	0	1	2	1	0	1	3	4	0	0

Admissions by Type of Injury

Type of injury	1996 %	1997 %	1998 %	1999 %	2000 %	2001 %	2002 %	2003 %	2004 %	2005 %
Blunt	1434 93.1%	1345 90.8%	1313 96.3%	1252 92.7%	1184 90.6%	1265 93.3%	1221 91.1%	1095 89.2%	1025 90.1%	1066 89.6%
Penetrating	106 6.9%	136 9.2%	124 8.6%	98 7.3%	121 9.4%	91 6.7%	120 8.9%	131 10.7%	112 9.9%	123 10.3%