Epidemiology of hand traumas during the COVID-19 confinement period

Hand injuries are common emergency situations, requiring surgical management in specialized centers on a daily basis [1,2]. More than a quarter of all unintentional injuries are hand injuries [3,4]. They are mainly caused by accidents in daily life situations while other traumatic injuries of the upper limb are often observed in the context of sports injuries or road traffic accident [3,5]. There are two main types of hand injuries requiring surgical treatment. Wounds with potential complex lesions of major structures in the deep tissues (e.g., tendons, nerves, arteries, ligaments and joint, bones), which require emergency management in order to save the hand function (e.g., devascularization, open fractures, flexor tendons lesions …) [6,7].

Source: Injury - February 17, 2021 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Thibaut Fortan é, Michael Bouyer, Malo Le Hanneur, Baptiste Belvisi, Guillaume Courtiol, Kevin Chevalier, Caroline Dainotto, Marie Loret, Agathe Kling, Antonin Bentejac, Thibault Lafosse Source Type: research