Background: Every year, approximately 1.25 million people are killed as a result of traffic accidents. Between 20 million and 50 million other people are exposed to non-fatal injuries and many become disabled. The study aims to assess the contributing factors of traumatic head injuries and its health outcomes in Baghdad city. Methodology: It was conducted descriptive study to determine the con...

905 Dear Editor: We read with great interest the careful study by Dr. Reichard and his colleagues (Reichard RR, White CL, Hladik CL, Dolinak D. Beta-amyloid precursor protein staining of nonaccidental central nervous system injury in pediatric autopsies. J. Neurotrauma 2003;20: 347–355). The paper provides some valuable information about the neuropathology of fatal infant head injury. It confir...

BACKGROUND The global incidence of fatal head injuries as the result of assault is greater than the number of non-fatal cases. The important factors that determine the outcome in terms of survival of such head injury cases include the type of weapon used, type and site of skull fracture, intra cranial haemorrhage and the brain injury. The present study aims to highlight the role of skull fractu...

We report a case of fatal methaemoglobinaema resulting from sodium nitrite poisoning. A 28 year old woman arrested in the emergency department following collapse. During resuscitation venous blood gas revealed methaemoglobin percentage 81%. Following treatment with methylene blue, bicarbonate and adrenaline, decreased. Prior to transfer intensive care, CT head extensive hypoxic brain injury. Tw...

THE following cases have been selected from the files of the Division of Neuropathology in the University of Toronto to illustrate the types of head injury which may cause death from meningitis. The fatal infection of the meninges may occur at the time of the injury, killing the patient within a few days or weeks of the accident, but its onset may be delayed for years after the head injury. Thr...

Correspondence to: Dr D M B Hall, Community Health Services, Clare House, St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 OQT. Epidemiology of head injury in childhood Between the ages of 1 and 14 years accidents constitute the greatest single cause of death and head injuries account for 40% of these, amounting to 403 in the United Kingdom in 1985.1 Only about one quarter of children who rece...

BACKGROUND Globally, head injury is a substantial cause of mortality and morbidity. A disproportionately greater burden is borne by low- and middle-income countries. The incidence and characteristics of fatal and hospitalised head injuries in Fiji are unknown. METHODS Using prospective data from the Fiji Injury Surveillance in Hospital system, the epidemiology of fatal and hospitalised head i...

The case reports of 50 fatal head injuries caused by assault and managed at the Institute of Neurological Sciences, Glasgow, were reviewed. Fifteen cases had diffuse axonal injury. Diffuse axonal injury is a well recognised type of brain damage brought about by a head injury, usually as a result of a road traffic accident or fall from a height. It does not seem to be widely appreciated that it ...

Australia is one of the few countries with current uniform helmet legislation (introduced in the early 1990s), but many cyclists continue to ride without head protection. Many peer-reviewed epidemiological studies published over the past decade have investigated the efficacy of helmets in preventing serious injury to bicycle riders involved in crashes. This report presents a formal summary quan...

traumatic head injury is the underlying cause of approximately 5% of all persons with epilepsy and is the major cause of epilepsies starting in young adulthood. penetrating head injury, particularly among soldiers, carries a risk of almost 50% of developing post-traumatic epilepsy (pte), mostly within 6 months to two years after the trauma. early seizures (within one week of the trauma) are dep...