title: Preventable and Potentially Preventable Traumatic Death Rates in Neurosurgery Department: A Single Center Experience.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Preventable and potentially preventable traumatic death rates is a method to evaluate the preventability of the traumatic deaths in emergency medical department. To evaluate the preventability of the traumatic deaths in patients who were admitted to neurosurgery department, we performed this study.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective review identified 52 patients who admitted to neurosurgery department with severe traumatic brain injuries between 2013 and 2014. Based on radiologic and clinical state at emergency room, each preventability of death was estimated by professional panel discussion. And the final death rates were calculated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The preventable and potentially preventable traumatic death rates was 19.2% in this study. This result is lower than that of the research of 2012, Korean preventable and potentially preventable traumatic death rates. The rate of preventable and potentially preventable traumatic death of operation group is lower than that of conservative treatment group. Also, we confirmed that direct transfer and the time to operation are important to reduce the preventability.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We report the preventable and potentially preventable traumatic death rates of our institute for evaluation of preventability in severe traumatic brain injuries during the last 2 years. For decrease of preventable death, we suggest that continuous survey of the death rate of traumatic brain injury patients is required.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
authors.forename: Mahnjeong
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ha
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
authors.forename: Byung Chul
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Trauma Surgery, Trauma Center of Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea.
authors.forename: Seonuoo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
authors.forename: Won Ho
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
authors.forename: Hyuk Jin
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Choi
keywords: Brain injuries; Death; Mortality; Neurosurgery