Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Dr. Alejandro Cabral, San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic
Research Article
Functional Outcome at 6 Months of Surgical Traumatic Brain Injury: A single Caribbean Center Pilot Study
Author(s): Encarnacion Manuel*, Peralta Ismael, Paulino Jeffrey, Renat Nurmukhametov and Rossi Evelyn Barrientos
Introduction: This is the first prospective study that evaluates the functional outcome after a surgical procedure secondary to a traumatic brain injury, in a single centre, in the Dominican Republic.
Objective: To determine the functional status of surgically treated patients 6 months after trauma and to establish the association of functional status with the predictive variables of the International Mission for Prognosis and Analysis of Critical Trials in TBI (IMPACT), determining the relative risk of worse prognosis according to those variables.
Material and method: A prospective, longitudinal study was conducted in a cohort of 22 patients who were surgically treated for a traumatic intracranial injury at Dr Ney Arias Lora Hospital in the Dominican Republic. We applied the IMPACT calculator, (pupillary response,.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2155-9562.2022.13(2).570
