Head Injury-A Leading Cause of Mortality in Road Traffic Accidents

The victim of RTA may sustain injury to any part of body but injury to brain is single most common cause of morbidity and mortality in accidents. Survival of the victim depends not only on diagnosis of head injury but survival and prognosis is affected by various factors eg mechanism of injur, type, extent and severity of head injury along with pre-existing pathology if any. The objective of planning the present study was to analyze the pattern of Fatal Head Injury sustained in vehicular accidents. RTA is leading cause of unintentional accidental death specially among the young and productive age group people of the country. However, prompt medical and surgical intervention assisted by radiological and laboratory evaluation can save a life.