The stabbed wounds as a cause of injuries of different parts of the body.

Abstract

Only 171 patients with injuries that were caused as a result of stubbing treated in Jan Bozy Regional Hospital in Lublin in the years 1997-2000, were analysed. The injured people were mostly men aged 21-40. 142 people were treated in outpatient clinic, and 29 were hospitalized. The medium ime spent in hospital was about 7 days. Eleven of the hospitalized patients were operated on immediately. On the basis of the analysis of the research results it was estimated that: 1. The most frequent tool ausing stabbed wounds in the case of hospitalized patients was a knife, and in outpatients--a nail. 2. The circumstances in which the stabbed wounds were most often appearing were accidents (out-patient clinic) and in the case of hospitalized patients assaults by unknown culprits. 3. The most frequent localization of the stabbed wounds among the hospitalized patients was chest and among the outpatients an arm or a leg.