Assessment of Epidemiology of Traumatic Brain Injuries and its Consequences in Rafsanjan: A Descriptive Study

Trauma is considered to be among the most important health problems of the industrial and developing countries and has a high mortality rate. Proper management of trauma injuries could decrease the side effects and the mortality rate. The current study aimed to evaluate the epidemiology of head injury traumas and its effective factors in Rafsanjan city.
Material and This cross sectional study was conducted using the patient's files in 2012. The data gathering included researcher made questionnaire including 6 demographic questions and 14 questions relating to the head injury traumas. The data were analyzed using fisher, chi square and t- test.
The results indicated that in 2012, 318 patients had referred to the emergency room with head injuries of which 82% of were males. The mean and deviation of the age range was 28.28.69. Accidents with motor vehicles with pedestrians with 69.1% was the leading cause of head traumas. In 83.7% of the cases the head injury was slight and insignificant. 79.2% of the patients had been transferred to the surgery and neurology wards. 9.1% had been transferred to the ICU and 6.6% had been directly taken to the operation room.
In this study pedestrian accidents with light motor vehicles such as motorcycles were the top factor in the head trauma injuries. The improvements of roads, educational programs for the drivers and increasing the quality and speed of emergency services should become the top priorities in order to decrease the traumas.