PMID: 11605416Oct 19, 2001Paper

Causes of dementia and bed-ridden state in elderly victims of road traffic accidents in Japan

Nihon hōigaku zasshi = The Japanese journal of legal medicine
H Kuroki

Abstract

In Japan, autopsies are seldom performed for the victims of road traffic accidents (RTA). Thus, when an elderly RTA victim dies after long-term hospitalization, the actual cause of death is hard to determine. Eight hundred eleven road traffic victims (69 +/- 16 years, M/F = 592/219) for whom insurance companies required us to judge the medical causal relation between the accident and the death from the view point of clinical forensic medicine. We discussed and reevaluated the cause of death and decided the cause and effect relation based on medical information. The number of subjects was equivalent to 8.4% of the yearly deaths by RTA in the investigated area, 19.3% of the aged death by RTA. An autopsy was performed only for 5%, ISS was 17.0 +/- 11.5; 94% were hospitalized; 62% continued to be unconscious, involving dementia (32%), persistent vegetative state (17%), coma or semi-coma (13%). Of the cases investigated, 89% died after becoming bedridden, which in 87% of cases was due to the RTA. The odds ratios of a bedridden state for head AIS > = 3, lower limbs AIS > = 2, lower limbs AIS > = 3, spinal AIS > = 3, chest AIS > = 2 were 3.1, 3.2, 7.2, 2.5, 1.8, respectively. The odds ratios of dementia for head AIS > = 3, head AIS > ...Continue Reading

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