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An Audit Of Head Trauma Care And Mortality, Arshad A. Siddiqui, Hasnain Zafar, S H. Bashir
An Audit Of Head Trauma Care And Mortality, Arshad A. Siddiqui, Hasnain Zafar, S H. Bashir
Section of Neurosurgery
Objective: To analyze the factors contributing to deaths from head trauma by using standardized assessment parameters and to provide a peer-review of head injury deaths with focus on identifying deficiencies and analyzing contributory factors.
Design: Descriptive study.
Place and duration of study: The study was carried out at the Emergency, Aga Khan University Hospital during January 1998 to December 1999.
Subjects and method: One hundred and three patients above the age of 15 years presenting alive to the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) emergency with head injury were included in this study. Identified deaths data was reviewed by the Hospital …