Posted: May 30, 2013 10:14 pm
I stumbled across this and don't understand it... I thought a gunshot to the head was game over. How do so many people survive it, and how do only 28 of 39 patients who died from it met the standard for brain death? If you're dead because of TBI, how does not that mean brain dead?
Science must be incredible because an "overall mortality of 66 per cent" for gun shots to the head make no sense to me.
Sixty-six patients with gunshot wounds to the head, including 59 with intracranial involvement (43 male, average age 26 years) were seen during a 4-year period. Injuries were limited to the head in 50 of 59 patients. Overall mortality was 66 per cent. Predictors of mortality included Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) of six or less (93%), self-inflicted gunshot wounds (75%), and computed tomography (CT) findings of bihemispheric injury (87%) or ventricular injury (82%). Of the 39 patients who died, 28 met standard criteria for brain death...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8239201
Science must be incredible because an "overall mortality of 66 per cent" for gun shots to the head make no sense to me.