1Emergency Nursing Master Program, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia
2Medical Program, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia
3Nursing Master Program, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia
*Corresponding Author: Irine Yunila Prastyawati, Emergency Nursing Master Program, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia Email: nilastikesrkz@gmail.com
Online published on 26 September, 2019.
Trauma patient's survival rate is influenced by trauma mechanism and prehospital length time. Trauma mechanism that often happens in head trauma is caused by traffic accident and falling incident. The period between the trauma and the arrival in Emergency Department can also determine the secondary head trauma and the survival of the patient.
The aim of the study was to analyze correlation between trauma mechanism and the length of prehospital time toward the survival rate of head trauma patient.
Design of the study used was a cross sectional and retrospective approach. The sample was medical record of patients with moderate and severe head trauma from January 2017 to December 2018.
The total sample was 180 medical records data. Most patients were male with total of 129 patients (71.7%) and the average age is 43.63 years old. The chi square test found that trauma mechanism and survival rate showed the value of p=0.783 while spearman rank test result between the length of prehospital time and survival rate was p=0.000.
Trauma mechanism has no correlation with the survival rate of head trauma, whereas the length of prehospital time has negative correlation with survival rate of head trauma.
Trauma mechanism, length of prehospital time, head trauma, survival rate
