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- Title
Effectiveness of Early Intervention of Coma Arousal Therapy in Traumatic Head Injury Patients.
- Authors
Mandeep; Kumar, Pravin
- Abstract
Objective: To find out efficacy and benefits of early intervention of coma arousal therapy on coma patients after sustaining traumatic head injury. Materials and methods: Thirty comatose patients with traumatic head injury were systematic randomly selected. Both experimental group and control group were having 15 patients each. Patients in experimental group were given coma arousal therapy while those in control group did not receive any coma arousal therapy. Glasgow coma scale (GCS) and coma recovery scale (CRS) were assessed before and after 1 and 2 weeks protocol. Results: The independent t-test was used for between the group data analysis. Repeated measure ANOVA and post hoc paired t-test were used in within the group analysis. Group A, mean of GCS on 1st, 7th and 14th day of coma arousal therapy was 3.93 (±1.09), 6.33 (±1.04) and 8.46 (±0.91) respectively and for Group B was 3.93 (±1.27), 4.80 (±1.26) and 5.93 (±1.94) respectively, which showed significant improvement (p < 0.05). Group A, mean of CRS on 1st, 7th and 14th day of coma arousal therapy was 2.06 (±1.03), 4.86 (±1.24) and 9.66 (±1.83) respectively and for Group B was 2.33 (±1.11), 2.93 (±1.09) and 4.73 (±2.18) respectively, which showed significant improvement (p < 0.05). When compared between the groups, experimental group showed significant improvement. Conclusion: This is concluded from the result of this study that coma arousal therapy is having significant effect on GCS and CRS in traumatic head injury patients when compared to the patients who did not receive coma arousal therapy.
- Subjects
HEAD surgery; COMA; GLASGOW Coma Scale; ANALYSIS of variance; MEDICAL care
- Publication
International Journal of Head & Neck Surgery, 2012, Vol 3, Issue 3, p137
- ISSN
0975-7899
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5005/jp-journals-10001-1114