TY - JOUR AU - Sinha, VD; Gupta, Vishnu; Singh, Deepak Kumar; Chopra, Sanjeev; Gupta, Pankaj; Bagaria, H TI - Geriatric head injuries - Experience and expectations SN - 0973-0508 SN - 2213-3739 PY - 2008 JF - Indian Journal of Neurotrauma LA - EN VL - 05 IS - 02 SP - 69 EP - 73 DA - 2017/04/05 KW - aged population KW - elderly trauma KW - geriatric KW - head injury KW - outcome AB - It is widely known that global citizenry is continuing to age. The elderly head trauma patients, comprising 4.83% in our series are important from neurosurgical aspects. We conducted a study of elderly head injury patients admitted to our unit in last 11 years. Out of 620 patients, 423 males and 197 female, constituting a ratio of 2.1∶1. Fall constitutes the principle mode of injury (56.29%) followed by RTA (44.1%). We analyzed all the cases for surgical intervention after careful assessment of neurological condition. Amongst all cases operated for acute trauma, good recovery was seen in 51.8% and mortality in 41.7%, whereas in chronic subdural haematoma 84.2% cases showed good recovery as against mortality in 10.5%. In our society, due to very close family ties and desperation of family members to try active intervention even in patients with expected bleak outcome, we operated a fairly large number of cases and concluded that outcome was better after operative intervention. PB - Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Ltd. DO - 10.1016/S0973-0508(08)80003-2 UR - http://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1016/S0973-0508%2808%2980003-2 ER -