Open AccessStudy of risk factors, clinical spectrum, and outcome for head injury in pediatric age group in Western India
Author(s) -
Sandhya Iyer,
Gaurav Patel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
african journal of paediatric surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.163
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 0189-6725
pISSN - 0974-5998
DOI - 10.4103/ajps.ajps_2_18
Subject(s) - medicine , glasgow coma scale , head injury , injury severity score , incidence (geometry) , skull fracture , pediatrics , road traffic accident , head trauma , traumatic brain injury , abbreviated injury scale , injury prevention , poison control , surgery , emergency medicine , road traffic , transport engineering , optics , engineering , physics , psychiatry
To study various risk factors which leads to head injury, severity of head injury and to compare survival as predicted by the Revised Trauma Score (RTS) and Pediatric Trauma Score (PTS) in pediatric patients admitted in a tertiary care hospital.