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).
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).