Volume : VII, Issue : XII, December - 2018

Hospital Occupancy in Traumatic Brain Injury patients

Swarnarekha N, Sai Sriram, Balasubramaniam

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Traumatic ain injury is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in young adults. As per report by the ministry of road transport, Government of India (2007) 1.4 lakhs road accident happened in 2007 with 40,612 people killed and 1.5 lakhs people injured.[1]Often, patients with even mild TBI need hospitalisation in order to rule out the possibility of delayed deterioration. A total of 89 patients admitted over a 6 month period were included in the study. The average age of the study group was 30.97. The age group ranged from 14 to 65 years of age. The average duration of stay was 12.8. Of them 80 patients were discharged having made varying degrees of recovery. The average age of those that were discharged was 30.18 yrs. The mean duration of stay was 13.5 days. It ranged from 2 days to 51 days. The average duration of stay was 6.3 days. It ranged from 2 days to 13 days. 6 patients who were part of the study expired during the course of treatment. The average age was 41 yrs. The LOS in this group ranged from 2 to 10 days while the mean LOS was 6.3 days.

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Hospital Occupancy in Traumatic Brain Injury patients , Swarnarekha N, Sai Sriram, Balasubramaniam , PARIPEX-INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-12 | December-2018

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