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- Title
Características clínicas de pacientes con trauma craneal.
- Authors
Millán-Guerrero, Rebeca Olivia; Isais-Millán, Sara; Hernández-Moreno, Juan José; Mendoza-López, Ivanhoe; Trujillo-Hernández, Benjamín; Ibarra-Barrientos, Reyes
- Abstract
Objective: to identify clinical characteristics and prognosis in patients with cranial trauma. Methods: a longitudinal design was used to study 302 patients between the years 2003 and 2006. Variables were mechanism and type of lesion, localization, clinical condition, Glasgow Coma Scale and prognosis. Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and odds ratio were applied. Results: motorvehicle accidents were in the first place (47%). The Glasgow mean score was 13. Half of the patients presented with loss of consciousness and the most common symptom in 34% of them was cephalgia. There was a proportionately inverse correlation with r-53 (p < 0.00001) between the Glasgow score and the number of hospitalization days. A two percent mortality was equally distributed in the period studied. Odds ratio forthe motorcycle as mechanism was 2.02 (95% CI, 0.8- 4.2) and the OR forthe frontoparietal region was 2.6 (95% CI, 0.6-2.3). Conclusions: the variables associated with unfavourable prognosis in cranial trauma were motorcycle accidents and damage to the frontoparietal region of the brain.
- Subjects
CLINICAL indications; HEAD injuries; GLASGOW Coma Scale; MOTORCYCLING accidents; BRAIN damage; HEADACHE
- Publication
Revista Medica del IMSS, 2010, Vol 48, Issue 4, p427
- ISSN
0443-5117
- Publication type
Article