Mild head trauma in elderly patients: experience of an emergency department

Heliyon
Gabriele SavioliMaria Antonietta Bressan

Abstract

We evaluated the risk profile of elderly patients who came to the emergency department for mild head trauma. The primary goal was to determine the difference in the incidence of posttraumatic intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) after minor head injury (MHI). The secondary objective was to assess worse outcome, such as: hospitalization rate, rate of re-admission, need of neurosurgery. We also assess the admission process times and length of hospital stay. The ultimate goal was to optimize the diagnostic-observational management of minor head trauma in elderly patients. We evaluated all patients with MHI who came to our emergency department during 2017 and 2018. All patients underwent computed tomography. We enrolled 2325 patients, of whom 1094 were 75 years of age or older. The population was divided into two categories according to age: The "elderly population" was 75 or older, and the younger patients were younger than 75. The elderly population, in comparison with the younger patients, had a higher rate of ICH (12.1% versus 5.1%), a higher hospitalization rate (11.7% versus 5.5%), and a higher rate of readmission within 30 days (6.8% versus 3.2%). The elderly population also had longer admission process times (8 h, 25 min, versus 4...Continue Reading

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