Association of Hand Dominance with Mechanism and Type of Hand Trauma in Patients Presenting at Civil Hospital Karachi

Authors

  • Rabeeaa Farrukh Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital, Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Karachi, Pakistan.
  • Faisal Akhlaq Ali Khan Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital, Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Karachi, Pakistan.
  • Waqas Sami Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital, Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Karachi, Pakistan.
  • Erum Naz Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital, Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Karachi, Pakistan.
  • Mehak Ali Memon Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital, Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Karachi, Pakistan.
  • Sumaira Sattar Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital, Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Karachi, Pakistan.

Keywords:

Hand injury, Hand trauma, Plastic reconstruction, Traumatic injuries, Dominant hand, Amputed

Abstract

Abstract: Background: All of the daily tasks in adults’ life such as eating, use of computers, kicking, throwing, learning, and writing are done with using the dominant hand. There are distinctive differences in hand functioning as an influence of hand dominance.

Objective: To determine the pattern of hand injury, its mechanism and its association with hand dominance in patients presenting at emergency department of Civil Hospital Karachi.

Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in Emergency department, Civil Hospital Karachi during February to Octo- ber, 2023. Adults of age 18 years and above of any gender presenting with acute hand injuries were included into the study. Patients committed suicide and amputed upper limbs were excluded from this study. Patients’ data was documented in a pre-designed proforma. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 26.

Result: Total 249 patients were enrolled into the study. Median age of patients was 22 (IQR=18-33) years. Majority of patients were males (n=209, 80.6%). Majority had injury in their right hand (n=175, 70.3%) and dominant hand (n=171, 68.7%). The most common injury mode was road traffic accidents (n=90, 36.1%) followed by assault (n=71, 28.5%), workplace (n=70, 28.1%), burns (n=10, 4%) and knife cut injuries (n=8, 3.2%). Frequency of workplace injury was significantly higher among dominant hand than non-dominant hand. Frequency of RTA and assaults was higher in non-dominant hand (p<0.001).

Conclusion: The present study analyzed that in most of hand injuries cases dominant hand was affected. Frequency of workplace related hand injuries was significantly higher among dominant hand than non-dominant hand.

Downloads

Published

2024-09-24

How to Cite

1.
Farrukh R, Khan FAA, Sami W, Naz E, Memon MA, Sattar S. Association of Hand Dominance with Mechanism and Type of Hand Trauma in Patients Presenting at Civil Hospital Karachi. Nat J Health Sci [Internet]. 2024Sep.24 [cited 2024Oct.14];9(3):192-6. Available from: https://ojs.njhsciences.com/index.php/njhs/article/view/624

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 3 (2024)

Section

Research Article

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

This is an Open Access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.