Clinical profile and etiology of craniocerebral trauma patients

 

Haroon Salaria¹, Vikar Hussain Qazi²

 

 

Abstract              Background: Traumatic brain injury has a high mortality and morbidity especially in developing nations. Head injury following trauma is the cause of death in about one-third of patients that die after accidents. Objectives: To study the clinical profile and etiology of craniocerebral trauma cases. Material and Methods: A prospective follow up study conducted in Postgraduate Department of surgery and the Department of Neurosurgery, Govt. medical college and hospital Jammu on consecutive 937 cases admitted for head trauma. Detailed history was taken, data was entered in to excel and analyzed using SPSS version 20. Results: Out of total 937 cases, 731 (78.01%) were males and 206 (21.99%) were females. Road traffic accidents was the most common cause( 49.55%). 148 patients had vomiting as most common symptom. 97 (10.35%) cases had a score of 3-7 at the time of admission. Out of 937 cases 103 (10.99%) cases died in this study. Conclusions: It is concluded that in Jammu region, with rapid urbanization and industrialization and ever increasing number of automobiles, head injuries have become a common occurrence and a serious health hazard.

Keywords: Craniocerebral Trauma, Road Traffic Accidents, Glasgow Coma Scale