Chaff Cutter Hand Injuries from Nakuru,Kenya.

We conducted a retrospective descriptive study on patients presenting with chaff-cutter hand injuries. The study was done from Nakuru County, in Kenya. We collected data for all patients who presented and were managed from Nakuru Level V Hospital during period starting July 2019 through June 2020. The case notes for the patients were retrieved from patients’ records and from the register of operations in the operating room. The patients’ biodata, type of injury and the surgical procedure performed were obtained. We included all injuries in all volar zones of the hand and used the Hand Injury Severity Score (HISS) to assign a HISS score for every patient. An enquiry was then made through a telephone call to the patients or their caretakers, a year after the month of hospital discharge, collecting data on whether the patient had resumed gainful activity