Improving the management of brain injuries in Malaysian hospitals.

83 The 2010 data on accidental brain injuries indicated that there were 6872 deaths out of 28,269 injuries that year. Most were males, in the age brackets of 16 years to 30 years. 4,035 died immediately at the accident site and the rest were managed in both Government and private hospitals . Despite motor vehicle accidents ranked as the third commonest cause of hospitalizations in Malaysian hospitals in 2008 2 and the ninth commonest cause of death in the country from 2006 till 2008 , according to Ministry of Health of Malaysia (MOH) and the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of publications about traumatic brain injury, especially its prevention and management are lacking. However, publications reported in the Medical Journal of Malaysia from West Malaysia 5-8 and one from East Malaysia 9 indicate that these patients are being managed within the norms of international standards. The outcome of these patients varies from hospital to hospital and the type of patients being admitted.