Head Injuries and Mortality: Where can We Improve? A Single Institution Experience
Journal Title: Nepal Journal of Neuroscience - Year 2006, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Traumatic brain injury remains one of the most common causes of mortality and head injury contributes to a significant proportion of patients who die from trauma. In this part of developing world we need to develop strategies those are compatible with limited resources and at the same time these can prevent trauma and head injury related mortality. Improved treatment within the “golden hours” and aggressive neurocritical care management as describe in the literature for these patients can result in increased survival from injuries which would have been fatal previously. Head injuries are largely preventable and best way to care brain is prevention. Public awareness and prevention programmes targeting the high-risk groups, modifying risk-taking behavior among the young, fall prevention and home safety issues in the frail elderly can be adopted to avoid trauma. In present article we analyze the causes of mortality due to head injuries at our centre and review the relevant literature whether these mortalities can be avoided.
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Amit Agrawal, MCh
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