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Background  The global burden of trauma is high, and injuries are expected to continue increasing within low and middle income countries. Trauma registries are one tool used to help design injury prevention strategies. At present there is no organized system of hospital based trauma registries in Colombia. 
Methods  The objective of this poster is to provide the preliminary data collected from a newly implemented trauma registry in Colombia. 
Results  Data is provided on 2220 trauma patients. Average age is 30 years. Males account for 76% of trauma patients. Eighty three percent of patients arrived by ambulance, with an average pre-hospital delay of 12 hours. Road traffic accounted for 26% of injuries. Fifty nine percent of patients suffered from extremity injuries, and 41% from head injuries. Interventions were carried out in 37% of patients. Overall death rate was 2%. Length of hospital stay averaged 2 days, with a maximum length of stay of 40 days. 
Conclusions  Using the data from a newly developed trauma registry in Colombia, a number of areas have been identified to allow for targeted injury prevention strategies.

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