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Complex knee injury scenario in tertiary level care in North India: An epidemiological study.

Floating knee injury has been considered as one of the severe orthopedic injury, and is often associated with major systemic trauma involving other organs.

Objective: To identify the incidence of floating knee injury, severity of injury and associated orthopaedic and non-orthopaedic injury.

Methods: Epidemiologic study conducted from 1 Jan 2014 to 31 Dec 2014.

Results: A total of 136 cases with floating knee injury were registered. Modified Fraser classification showed 58 patients had type 1, 74 had type 2 and 4 had type 3 floating knees. 119(87.5%) patients had open fractures and Gustilo-Anderson type IIIA(29.4%) being the commonest. No Mortality was found. 16 (11.76%) of floating knees had to undergo amputation of afflicted limb.

Conclusion: Statics of such data would be helpful in planning and preparing ourselves as healthcare professionals to prevent high mortality and morbidity/disability in floating knee injury.

Study design: Retrospective Epidemiological.

Level of Evidence: Level 4 (Case Study).

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