Epidemiology of Neurosurgical Cases reported in a tertiary care hospital of Peshawar in the month of December, 2011
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Neurosurgical cases include a list of all those diseases and accidents which affect the nervous system and require surgical intervention for their treatment.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency and various causes of neurosurgical cases leading to the admission of patients in neurosurgical ward of Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar and correlate with age and gender.
METHODOLOGY: A descriptive study was carried out in the neurosurgery ward of Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar. The required data was collected from the official register of neurosurgical ward after obtaining approval from Ethical Review Committee (ERC) of concerned institute. The data was then entered in especially designed analyzing sheet. Further analysis was done in SPSS version 16 and graphs were designed in MS Excel 2007. Confidentiality and anonymity of subjects was taken into account. The entire study duration was almost 6 months.
RESULTS: Total 195 cases were reported out of which 173 cases were filed with complete required and was thus considered for data analysis. Among 173 cases, majority of the cases were related to the History of Fall (HOF) with frequency of 30 followed by Road traffic accidents (RTA) with incidence number of 23. CNS tumor was the third leading cause of death.
CONCLUSION: It can be concluded that most leading causes of admission of patients associated with neurosurgical cases are History of Fall and Road Traffic accidents which can be prevented easily. Endoscopic third ventriculostomy was more common in males while Prolapsed inter-vertebral disc and SAH were mostly associated with females.
KEY WORDS: Epidemiology, Neurosurgical cases, History of fall, Road traffic accidents, Disc prolapse
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