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The Outcome of Head Injuries: The Saudi Experience WAHAB, ABDEL IBRAHIM, M. CHOWDHARY, U.M. AMMAR, AHMED IBRAHIM, E.M. open access Head injury Glasgow Come Scale One analysis of the outcome of 159 cases of head injuries was based on patients' admission Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), score, age, CT scan findings and uniform protocol of management. Fifty-three percent of the patients were children below the age of 10 years and 70 % of all patients were Saudis. Eighty-point-five percent (80.5 %) of the patients had a GCS score of 8 or more and their outcome was favorable. By contract, the 19.5 % who had an initial GCS score of 7 or less tended to be older and had a worse prognosis (mortality 68 %). A high initial GCS score, old age, associated multiple injuries and a shift of more than 4 mm of the midline structures on CT scan of the brain are useful prognostic indices in predicting the outcome of head injury. Nagoya University School of Medicine 1989-03 eng departmental bulletin paper VoR https://doi.org/10.18999/nagjms.51.1-4.1 http://hdl.handle.net/2237/17505 https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/15487 10.18999/nagjms.51.1-4.1 http://www.med.nagoya-u.ac.jp/medlib/nagoya_j_med_sci/5114/5114.html 2186-3326 0027-7622 Nagoya Journal of Medical Science 51 1-4 1 6 https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/15487/files/v51n14p1_6.pdf application/pdf 363.0 kB 2018-02-20