A Study of Complication of Head Injuries using Computerized Tomography scan

Abstract

The study was conducted in Military hospital (medical corps) in the ER

hospital and Aliaa hospital in Omdurman city in 2018 with population sample

of 70 patients. The data collected from Radiology Department of those

hospitals by using a CT machine (TOSHIBA aqilion 64) and these datd

collected according to data sheet involved and analysis by SPSS.

The study focused on the complications of the head injuries by using CT due

to increase of cars traffic movement and high way roads; the RTA increased

and traumatic brain injuries increased which had high risk of death among

population so it need accurate evaluation and the CT is the best accurate

modalities to determined head injuries (both bony and soft tissue injuries).

A descriptive study designed to study the role of CT scan in detection of

complications in patient with head injuries and to correlate these CT findings

to age and gender. The study main findings that fractures were most common

abnormality of patients with head injuries 51.4%. And Road traffic accident

(RTA) is the main cause of head injuries54.3%. And males have high ratio to

head injuries compare with females74.3%to 25.7% and the most common

group affected were (18-30).

Finally, the study concluded that the CT is the best accurate modalities to

determine head injuries (both bony and soft tissue injuries) and most of the

head injuries were caused by RTA. The study concluded that there was

relation between complications of head injury and age.

The study recommended that educational programs exist to lower the number

of crashes, a new technique must exist in cars that prevent head trauma to the

people inside the cars which were (air bags) should be found in Sudan or as

safety criteria of traffic policy, the government hospitals (especially in far

states) should be provided by CT scanning machines and more researches should be done using large sample of patients for further assessment