Emergency Medicine Test Prep

Category - Abdominal and Genitourinary Trauma

The most frequent type of abdominal trauma is?
  1. Penetrating trauma
  2. Blunt force trauma
  3. Visceral trauma
  4. All of the above
Explanation
Answer: B - A study was conducted regarding incidence of abdominal trauma it was found that the Abdominal trauma was present in 248 of 300 cases, 172 patients with blunt abdominal trauma and 76 with penetrating. The most frequent type of abdominal trauma was blunt force trauma. Its most common cause was due to motor vehicle accidents.
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