[Comparative analysis of traffic accident injuries and injuries from land mines]

The observation period was from 1 January 1996 to 31 December 1997. The purpose of this research is to determine the frequency of the injuries (traffic's accidents and contact mine's) in the Emergency Medical Service at Tesanj, and their mutual relation. We made a protocol where we registered the personal data, cause, time and type of injuries, treatment and the outcome. We found out that 0.68% of injuries treated in Emergency Department's were caused by traffic accidents and contact mines's) Traffic's injuries were the dominant ones (90%). Males were injured more often than females. Children were injured's in 18%. Critical month for the traffic's accidents was May, and for the injuries by contact mines's was April. The traffic's injuries had tendency of increase, and the injuries by contact mines's had tendency of decrease in comparison with cases in 1996. In Emergency Medical Service 92% of victims arrived in the first thirty minutes after injury. The accidents 's' mostly happened between 08-12 h a.m. and 08-12 h p.m. Rarely the accidents happened between 04-08 h a.m. A head was the most injured body part in traffic accidents (35%) and lower limbs in the contact mine injuries (around 30%). At the injuries by contact mines 62.5% of amputations were at the level of lower leg. The mortality at contact mine injuries's was 17.6% and at traffic injuries 2.7%.