To study the alcohol related and non-alcohol related traumatic brain injury admissions to a neurointensive care unit

3^rd Annual Congress and Medicare Expo on Trauma and Critical Care

March 13-14, 2017 London, UK

Shameer Rafee, Tom Doke and Platon Razis

St George′s Hospital, UK

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Trauma Treat

Abstract :

We performed a retrospective analysis of 50 patients admitted to a neuro intensive care unit over a three months period. Data recorded included demographic details, mortality, injury, mechanism and length of stay. We then correlated the data with concurrent alcohol intoxication. 26% of our patients presented with intoxication. This cohort was younger than those who presented with TBI without intoxication (mean 50.4 vs. 52.3 years). Alcohol related TBIs were also more common in males than females (mean 20% vs. 6%). We did not find a statistically significant difference between the two groups for length of stay with the alcohol group having an average LOS of 3.2 days within the NICU. Overall mortality with TBI for our population was 8% with no deaths among the alcohol related admissions. We also found that alcohol did not play any significant role mechanism of injury with assaults, RTAs and falls being more common in the non-alcohol group. There has only been one previous study which examined the role of alcohol in traumatic brain injuries in the UK. Although alcohol use did not affect outcome in our population, some international studies have shown a protective effect of low dose alcohol intoxication in TBIs with higher levels of intoxication leading to worse mortality rates.