Alcohol consumption, blood alcohol concentration level and guideline compliance in hospital referred patients with minimal, mild and moderate head injuries
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/3947DOI
doi: 10.1186/1757-7241-19-25Dato
2011Type
Journal articleTidsskriftartikkel
Peer reviewed
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Efskind, Marianne; Heskestad, Ben Ottar; Ingebrigtsen, Tor; Romner, Bertil; RØNNING, PÅL ANDRE; Helseth, EirikSammendrag
In 2000 the Scandinavian Neurotrauma Committee published guidelines for safe and cost-effective
management of minimal, mild and moderate head injured patients. The aims of this study were to investigate to what extent the head injury population is under the influence of alcohol, and to evaluate whether the physicians’ compliance to the guidelines is affected when patients are
influenced by alcohol.
This study included adult patients (≥15 years) referred to a Norwegian University Hospital with minimal, mild and moderate head injuries classified according to the Head Injury Severity Scale (HISS). Information on alcohol consumption was recorded, and in most of these patients blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was measured. Compliance with the abovementioned guidelines was registered.
The study includes 860 patients. 35.8% of the patients had consumed alcohol, and 92.1% of these patients had a BAC ≥ 1.00‰. Young age, male gender, trauma occurring during the weekends, mild and moderate head injuries were independent factors significantly associated with being under the influence of alcohol. Guideline compliance was 60.5%, and over-triage was the main violation. The guideline compliance showed no significant correlation to alcohol consumption or to BAC-level.
This study confirms that alcohol consumption is common among patients with head injuries. The
physicians’ guideline compliance was not affected by the patients’ alcohol consumption, and alcohol influence could therefore not explain the low guideline compliance.
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BioMed CentralSitering
Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine (2011), 19:25Metadata
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