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Quicker access to operations 'reduces mortality risk in TBI'RSS Feed
Traumatic brain injury patients who are operated on sooner after their arrival at the emergency department have significantly higher survival rates, according to a new study.
Research published in the Journal of Emergency Nursing found that patients with traumatic brain injury can greatly benefit from a craniotomy or drainage of hematoma within four hours of emergency department.
Those whose waiting time exceeded the four hour mark were seen to have a higher risk of mortality and be more likely to remain in hospital for a longer amount of time.
The author writes: "If surgery is performed within four hours after a patient with a TBI arrives at the ED, the hospital mortality rate significantly decreases. In addition, when brain-injured patients undergo surgery within four hours of ED arrival, their LOS is significantly shorter."
Meanwhile, research published in the Journal of Neurotrauma revealed that psychiatric illness and other mental health risk factors can predict psychiatric symptoms following traumatic brain injury.
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