conclusions with regards to the predictive strength of the combination of gcs and iss, a predictive system for analyzing the clinical outcome may be provided. results 15496 traumatic patients referred to the hospital and traumatic deaths occurred in 289 patients. blunt trauma accounted for 286 (99%) of death and penetrating trauma for only 1%. our findings concerning the injury pattern, correla...

INTRODUCTION Parkinsonian syndrome secondary to craniocerebral trauma is a controversial subject. Of the 163 reports of traumatic Parkinsonism which includes over 200 individual cases, only 2% have had sufficient evidence to implicate trauma as the etiological factor." Clinical criteria for the diagnosis of this rare entity include cerebral trauma of sufficient severity to produce midbrain dama...

Objective: To treat the severe craniocerebral trauma patients by using early tracheotomy and explore the influences on clinical effects and relevant indexes. Methods: 76 severe craniocerebral trauma patients in our hospital were randomly divided into the control group and the observation group, each 38 cases. The control group was given tracheotomy after 24 h, the observation group was given tr...

The aim of the study was to investigate dynamic changes in α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH) levels in the serum of patients with craniocerebral trauma. Forty-eight patients with acute craniocerebral injury were selected between January 2015 and October 2016. The patients were divided into three groups: severe (18 cases), moderate (16 cases) and mild (14 cases), according to the Glasgow ...

results in the first three years, the team managed the care of 812 admissions. mean age wasn 44.3 years (sd = 24.8) and mean length of hospital stay was 6.1 days (sd = 10.9). ofn these individuals, 674 attended for 6 month follow-up with 52.2% having a good outcomen on extended glasgow outcome score. patients and their relatives' feedbacks weren excellent with an average score of 4.7/5 on overa...

The findings at necropsy in three cases of severe craniocerebral injury associated with unconsciousness are reported with special reference to the histopathological findings in the myocardium. In the first case, death occurred 3 days after the trauma, in the second case 21 days after, and in the third case, 7 years after. Necropsy showed myocardial lesions of recent origin in the first case, st...

OBJECTIVES Identification and assessment of predictive factors of in-hospital mortality of trauma patients injured in vehicle accidents. METHODS We reviewed the Trauma Registry data of Herakleion University Hospital, a level I trauma center in Crete, Greece. All 730 consecutive, adult motor-vehicle trauma patients admitted to our hospital from 1997 to 2000 were included in the study. Variable...

The occurrence of bilateral extradural hematomas is an uncommon consequence of craniocerebral trauma and its incidence is variable in various studies ranging from 2-25%.1 We studied all cases of head injury brought to our institute over a period of 6 months and found the incidence of bilateral extradural hematomas to be 13.3%.

anosmia following head trauma is relatively common and in many cases is persistent and irreversible. the ability to objectively measure such a decline in smelling, for both clinical and medicolegal goals, is very important. the aim of this study was to find results of brain single photon emission computed tomography (spect) in anosmic subjects after closed head trauma. this case-control cross s...