%0 Journal Article
%T Traumatismo craneoencef¨¢lico: estudio de cinco a£¿os
%A Quintanal Cordero
%A Nelson
%A Felipe Mor¨¢n
%A Armando
%A T¨¢panes Dom¨ªnguez
%A Alejandro
%A Rodr¨ªguez de la Paz
%A Norbery
%A Ca£¿izares Marrero
%A Cecilia
%A Prince L¨®pez
%A Jos¨¦
%J Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar
%D 2006
%I ECIMED
%X six thousand five hundred and forty eight patients, who went to the emergency room of ¡°dr luis d¨ªaz soto¡± with a diagnosis of cranioencephalic trauma, were studied regardless of the severity of injure and of associated multiple lesions. of this number, 19,62 % were children. the most frequent cause was traffic accident. slight cranioencephalic trauma prevailed and only 383 patients presented with moderate to severe traumatism. 18,35 % of cases required hospitalization and 4,54 % needed some type of urgent surgery. forty two percent of patients suffering cranioencephalic traumatism died and also 27,61 % of operated patients deceased. respiratory sepsis was the most frequent complication. good results were achieved in 47,71 % of cases with severe cranioencephalic traumatism and in 98,41 % of the studied patients in general.
%K neurosurgical emergencies
%K cranioencephalic trauma
%K behaviour.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0138-65572006000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en