Background and Objective: Head injury in pregnancy can increase the risks of mortality and morbidity, both for the mother andfetus. Common complications are including death, shock, intrauterine bleeding, intrauterine feta! death, feta! trauma, placental abruptio and, uterine rupture. Motor vehicle accident, falls, assault and gun shot wound are the primary cause of injury. Treatment and recogni…
Lactate has been know as one of the prognostic factors determining the outocome of the patient with a head injuries and its relation wiith the cerebral parenchymal damage that is seen on the CT-Scan. Conducting a cross sectional study, we examined the arterial lactate levels of 30 head-injured patients in January-May 2008 who, after hawing a CT-Scan admitted to the emergency room at Hasan Sadik…