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The role of computed tomography for minor head injuryYıldıray Çete1, Murat Pekdemir1, Cem Oktay1, Oktay Eray1, Hayri Bozan1, Fevzi Ersoy1Akdeniz Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi İlk ve Acil Yardım Anabilim Dalı, Antalya.Head trauma is a major health problem which affects young people, especially young males and also causes serious economic losses. Although major head injuries are cause greater morbidity and mortality, minor head injuries are more common presentations to emergency departments. In this study our goal is to determine the prevalence of CT usage in minor, adult head injury patients and determine clinical variables for the use of head CT scans. In our study we retrospectively examined 230 adult head injury patients who were presented to the Dokuz Eylul University Medical School Hospital Emergency Department. We recorded age, gender, symptoms of nausea, vomiting, headache, alcohol use, physical examination findings, history of loss of consciousness prior to presentation, concurrent injuries, and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) scores. Head CT ordering and abnormal findings were correlated with the above clinical variables. We ascertained that all variables affected the ordering of CT scans except age, gender and alcohol use. The prevalence of abnormal head CT in all patients were 21.7%. We found that GCS is only one clinical variability of which statistically significant relationship to acquaint abnormal CT findings. Minör kafa travması olan hastalarda bilgisayarlı beyin tomografisinin rolüYıldıray Çete1, Murat Pekdemir1, Cem Oktay1, Oktay Eray1, Hayri Bozan1, Fevzi Ersoy1Akdeniz Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi İlk ve Acil Yardım Anabilim Dalı, Antalya.Yıldıray Çete, Murat Pekdemir, Cem Oktay, Oktay Eray, Hayri Bozan, Fevzi Ersoy. The role of computed tomography for minor head injury. Ulus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg. 2001; 7(3): 189-194 |
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