[Traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents at Salvador City, Bahia, Brazil].
OBJECTIVE
To verify the frequency of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the people between 0 and 19 years of age, in accordance to gender, age and cause of trauma.


METHODS
Descriptive study made through a period of a year, in all TBI victims, aged until 19 years admitted in a reference trauma center.


RESULTS
The sample had a total of 390 patients; 280 (71.8%) were boys. The main age of the victims was between 10 to 19 years (adolescents) with 177 patients (45.4%). The most common cause of trauma was height falls (34.4%). According to the Glasgow Coma Scale, 89% had suffered mild TBI.


CONCLUSIONS
The main group of victims was the adolescents; the most important cause of TBI was height fall, with masculine predominance and mild trauma.
Melo
José Roberto Tude
JR
Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos (HUPES) - Universidade Federal da Bahia e Hospital Geral do Estado da Bahia, Salvador BA, Brasil. jmelo@hupes.ufba.br
de Santana
Diana Lara Pinto
DL
Pereira
Júlio Leonardo Barbosa
JL
Ribeiro
Tiago Freire
TF
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D015600:Glasgow Coma Scale; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D017678:Sex Distribution; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices