Incidencia de traumatismo craneoencefálico diagnosticado por tomografía computarizada en el Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga en el periodo enero 2020 - junio 2020

Abstract

Background: Head trauma is a physical injury produced on brain tissue as a result of an accident or direct impact on this region. Computed tomography is the main imaging technique for its evaluation due to the great anatomical and pathological contribution it provides from the different structures that make up the skull. According to the World Health Organization in 2009, in Ecuador the death rate from head trauma is 16.9 people per 100,000 inhabitants, most of which are attributed to severe head injuries. Objective: To determine the incidence of Head Trauma diagnosed by Computed Tomography in patients who attend the imaging service at José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital in the period January to June 2020.Methodology: A descriptive and prospective study was carried out in which the universe was the patients who come to the imaging department at HJCA, to perform a computed tomography of the skull in the period January to June 2020. This information was tabulated and analyzed in the ¨SPSS¨ 25 system. Results: From a sample of 371 patients, there was a greater number of patients with mild TBI (56.6%). The most frequent were male (52.6%), between the age range of 16 to 30 years, in the urban area, (66.8%). The contusion was the one that was seen more frequently (32.9%) in tomography. Key words: traumatic brain injury (TBI), computed tomography (CT), mild, moderate and severe TBI.