OUTCOME OF MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY.
Keywords:
brain injury, mild, outcome, trauma
Abstract
Summary: Mild traumatic brain injury is the most common type of traumatic brain injury. Some victims do not consider it seriously until it is too late to salvage them. On the Glasgow Coma Scale, scores of 13-15 are considered mild traumatic brain injuries. We prospectively studied mild traumatic brain injury patients managed in our center. Objective: To determine the treatment outcome of mild traumatic brain injury patients admitted and treated in our center.
Methods: It was a prospective study of mild traumatic brain injury patients admitted to our center from August 2010 to January 2015. Traumatic brain injury patients who scored 13-15 on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) after resuscitation in accident and emergency, admitted and treated qualified for the study. The Glasgow outcome score was used to assess the patients on discharge. Data were collected using structured proforma which was a component of our prospective data bank that was approved by our Research and Ethics Committee. We analyzed the data with the Environmental Performance Index info 7 software.
Results: There were 183 patients in the study. Males were 139. The mean age was 28.56 years. One hundred and twenty-two were involved in road traffic accidents. Patients with GCS of 15 were 89. One hundred and eighty-two had a favorable functional outcome. The GCS significantly affected the outcome.
Conclusion: The most common etiology was road traffic accidents with males and the age group 20-40years most commonly involved. The most common Glasgow coma score was 15. The favorable functional outcome was good.
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5. Graham DI, McIntosh TK, Maxwell WL, Nicoli JA. Recent advances in neurotrauma. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 2000; 59:644-51.
6. Gentry LR. Imaging of closed head injury. Radiology 1994; 191:1-17.
7. Charles A, Brennan K. Cortical spreading depression ─ new insights and persistent questions. Cephalalgia 2009; 29:1115-24.
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Nnadi MON, Fente BG. OUTCOME OF MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY. Med. res. chronicles [Internet]. 2015Sep.29 [cited 2024May6];2(5):597-09. Available from: https://medrech.com/index.php/medrech/article/view/127
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