Incidence of intra cranial haemorrhages in Trauma of the head on CT Scan Brain

Abstract

CT Scan has largley modified the diagnosis and plan of treatment in patients with head injury. It easily provides the direct visualization of the blood collection and allows one to detect even haematolomas / confusion of few mm size. Thus the probability of poor outcome can be predicted with certainly. The study presented in this article is a study of 100 consecutive head injury patients who were treated in the department of Neurosurgery Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar from 15th June 1998 to 15th December 1998. This study was conducted irrespective of age, sex and cause. All these 100 head injured patients were scanned in emergency and the CT findings of these patietns were analysed. (The objective of this study were to find out the incidnece of different types of intra cranial haemorrhages in head injured patients on CT Scan, the relation of intra cranial haemorrhages with the clinical condition of patients and to help the doctors in time whille planning treatment.)