Zoheir Reihanian1, Nazanin Noori Roodsari2, Siamak Rimaz3, Payman Asadi4, Naghmeh Khoshsima5, Aryan Rafiee Zadeh6, Seyyed Mahdi Zia Ziabari4, Habib Eslami-Kenarsari7, Elahe Abbaspour3. 1. Road Trauma Research Center, Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences Rasht, Iran. 2. Clinical Research Development Unit of Poursina Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences Rasht, Iran. 3. Guilan Road Trauma Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences Rasht, Iran. 4. Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences Rasht, Iran. 5. Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences Rasht, Iran. 6. School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences Isfahan, Iran. 7. MSc in Biostatistics, Vice-Chancellor for Resaerch and Technology, Guilan University of Medical Sciences Rasht, Iran.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that referral cases of traumatic injuries have decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic both in childhood and in adulthood. Still we have very little evidence of referrals due to traumatic brain injury among children during the COVID-19 outbreak. The present study aimed to describe epidemiological and clinical features of pediatric traumatic brain injuries. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was performed on all patients under 15 years with any evidence of head trauma, referring to Poursina teaching hospital, a referral center for trauma and road accidents in northern Iran. The patients' data were retrospectively collected by reviewing the hospital recorded files and the trauma-specific hospital information system. RESULTS: Of all 543 pediatric traumatic injuries referred to our hospital during the two pointed periods, 166 had any evidence of head and neck injuries leading to an overall prevalence rate of 30.6%. In this regard, the prevalence rate of head/neck injuries was estimated to be 140 out of 436 within a pre-COVID-19 period (32.1%) and 26 out of 107 within the COVID-19 period (24.3%) indicating no significant difference between the two time periods (P = 0.243). However, assessing the rate of head/neck injuries pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 periods according to patients' age showed a higher rate of such injuries in pre-COVID-19 as compared to COVID-19 periods in patients aged less than two years (55.6% versus 37.5%, P = 0.013) as well as aged 2 to six years (45.8% versus 30.0%, P = 0.036). CONCLUSION: The rate of admission of children due to traumatic brain injury during the COVID-19 period does not show a significant change compared to before, and only in children under 6 years of age a decrease in referrals due to brain trauma during the COVID-19 period was observed. IJBT
BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that referral cases of traumatic injuries have decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic both in childhood and in adulthood. Still we have very little evidence of referrals due to traumatic brain injury among children during the COVID-19 outbreak. The present study aimed to describe epidemiological and clinical features of pediatric traumatic brain injuries. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was performed on all patients under 15 years with any evidence of head trauma, referring to Poursina teaching hospital, a referral center for trauma and road accidents in northern Iran. The patients' data were retrospectively collected by reviewing the hospital recorded files and the trauma-specific hospital information system. RESULTS: Of all 543 pediatric traumatic injuries referred to our hospital during the two pointed periods, 166 had any evidence of head and neck injuries leading to an overall prevalence rate of 30.6%. In this regard, the prevalence rate of head/neck injuries was estimated to be 140 out of 436 within a pre-COVID-19 period (32.1%) and 26 out of 107 within the COVID-19 period (24.3%) indicating no significant difference between the two time periods (P = 0.243). However, assessing the rate of head/neck injuries pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 periods according to patients' age showed a higher rate of such injuries in pre-COVID-19 as compared to COVID-19 periods in patients aged less than two years (55.6% versus 37.5%, P = 0.013) as well as aged 2 to six years (45.8% versus 30.0%, P = 0.036). CONCLUSION: The rate of admission of children due to traumatic brain injury during the COVID-19 period does not show a significant change compared to before, and only in children under 6 years of age a decrease in referrals due to brain trauma during the COVID-19 period was observed. IJBT
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