Factors affecting pattern of severe traumatic brain injuries in patients with Craniofacial fractures: An institutional study of 230 patients in a teritiary care hospital

Abstract

There is dearth of information in the literature regarding the relationship between head injuries and facial trauma in literature. Maxillofacial injuries are commonly encountered in trauma and emergency department. Usually this type of injury is a type of poly injury which requires intervention by oral and maxillofacial surgeon, Neurosurgeon, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, ophthalmology and trauma surgery. The objective of our study was to study this important relationship between facio maxillary and traumatic brain injury. This is a descriptive analytical study of trauma patients at GMC Srinagar in which the medical records of 230 patients who were referred for MF injury may or may not be associated with head and neurological injury were analyzed. We evaluated 230 patients with maxillofacial trauma and intracranial injury admitted to our hospital, between 2012 and 2017.