@article{ref1,
title="Epidemiology and course of craniocerebral injuries in children in Cantabria",
journal="Neurologia",
year="1990",
author="Vázquez-Barquero, A. and Sanz, F. and Montiaga, F. and Herrera, S. and Gaite, L. and Pascual, J.",
volume="5",
number="5",
pages="155-159",
abstract="We present the epidemiology and the outcome of the patients younger than 15 years-old who were admitted to our hospital during 1986 with the diagnosis of head injury. One hundred and fifty-five met the required inclusion criteria, this offers an incidence of head injury in children of 139/100,000. The boy/girl ratio was 2.1/1. The commonest causes were traffic accidents (45%), mainly those knocked down or on bicycles, and falls (41%). According to the Glasgow Coma Scale 88.5% of the head injuries were slight, only 11.5% being moderate or severe. The outcome was good in 97%. There were two intrahospital deaths, that happened in the 8 patients with severe head injury, giving a mortality rate of 25% for this group; and 5 deaths out of hospital. Thus, the global mortality secondary to head injury for children was 6.3/100,000 and year. These data show: a) the sanitary importance of the head injury in children; b) the necessity of a separate study of the head injury in children since the precipitating causes and the clinical outcome are specific; and c) the shortcomings in the urgent out of hospital medical attention, as indicates an out of hospital mortality rate of 71% which is well above that of other developed countries.<p /> <p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="0213-4853",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}