Woldmeskel, Asfawosen (2017) Assessment of Magnitude and Outcomes of Head Injury in Myungsung Christian Medical Center (Korea Hospital), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: Trauma, especially head trauma, is an expanding major public health problem and the leading cause of death of the young and productive part of the world’s population. Objective: To assess the magnitude and outcomes of head injury among patients presented to adult emergency department of Myungsung Christian medical center, from January 01, 2016 to January 01, 2017, Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Methods: Institutional based retrospective, cross sectional study was conducted at Myungsung Christian medical center, from January 01, 2016 to January 01, 2017, Addis Ababa Ethiopia. All head injury patients who fulfills inclusion criteria and visited Myungsung Christian medical center during the period from January 01, 2016 to January 01, 2017 were selected for the study. Result. From total of 673 trauma patients visited adult emergency of MCM hospital from January 12016 to January 1, 2017, there were 168 head injury patients and included in this study of which 124 (73.8%) were males and 44(26.2%) were females. From the 168 head injury patients, severity of head injury was categorized depending on GCS and 11(6.4%) severe, 73 (43.5%) moderate and 84(50%) were mild type of head injury. Road traffic accident was the leading 59(43.3%) followed by fall down accident 49(35.8%) and assault or fighting measures for 29(21.2%) of head injury patients. The majority of the patients 99(58.8%) were improved, 28(16.7%) cured, 7(4.2%) died and 34(20.2%) were with unknown outcome because they were referred to other hospitals. Conclusion: the analysis of this study revealed that road traffic accident is the major cause of head injury and head injury patient with associated injury are more at risk to develop complications than with no associative injury.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | head injury, magnitude, outcomes, retrospective, Myungsung Christian medical center |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Vincent Mpoza |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2018 12:01 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2018 12:01 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/6383 |
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