A B S T R A C TBackground: Head injuries occur every 15 seconds worldwide, with patientsdying every 12 minutes. The value of the Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) is afactor that influences the assessment and prognostic value of patients withintracranial hemorrhage and without intracranial hemorrhage in head injury.The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between increased NLRbased on the severity of head injury patients with or without intracranialhemorrhage. Methods: This study is a retrospective cross sectional study of headinjury patients with hemorrhage and without intracranial hemorrhage who weretreated at Dr. M. Djamil Hospital Padang in 2020 from May to December 2020.Data was collected in the Medical Records Department of Dr. M. Djamil HospitalPadang who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results : A total of 92patients were included in the inclusion criteria for this study. The results showedthat the mean NLR value in head injury patients was 11.72 with a variation of7.31. The mean NLR level based on the severity of mild head injury was 10.15with a variation of 6.38. The mean NLR level of moderate head injury severity was12.70 with a variation of 7.09. The mean NLR level of severe head injury, was14.69 with a variation of 9.30. The results showed that there was no difference inthe mean of NLR levels in mild head injury patients with hemorrhage and withoutintracranial hemorrhage. The results showed that there was a significantrelationship between NLR levels in moderate head injury patients withhemorrhage (14.20) and without intracranial hemorrhage (7.20) (p value = 0.029),whereas in severe head injury it could not be assessed because there was nosample without hemorrhage. Conclusion: There is an association betweenincreased NLR and intracranial bleeding in moderate head injury patients

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Background: Head injuries occur evry 15 seconds worldwide, with patients dying every 12 minutes. The value of the Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) is a factor that influences the assessment and prognostic value of patients with intracranial hemorrhage and without intracranial hemorrhage in head injury. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between increased NLR based on severity of head injury patients with or without intracranial hemorrhage. Methods: This study is a retrospective cross sectional study of head injury patients with hemorrhage and without intracranial hemorrhage who were treated at Dr. M. Djamil Hospital Padang in 2020 from May to December 2020. Data was collected in the Medical Records Department of Dr. M. Djamil Hospital Padang who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results: The results showed that there was a significant relationship between NLR levels in moderate head injury patients with hemorrhage (14,20) and without intracranial hemorrhage (7,20) (p value = 0.029), whereas in severe head injury it could not be assessed because there was no sample without hemorrhage. Conclusion:There is an association between increased NLR and intracranial bleeding in moderate head injury patients.

A B S T R A C TBackground: Traumatic brain injury is the main cause of death in the populationunder the age of 45 years, and the fourth leading cause of death in the entire ofpopulation. Based on the degree of traumatic brain injury, it is commonly categorizedbased on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). Post-Concussion Syndrome (PCS) is theset of somatic, emotional / behavioral and cognitive symptoms that occur after atraumatic brain injury. The aim of this study was to find out the prevalence andcorrelation of the degree of traumatic brain injury based on the Glasgow Coma Scale(GCS) and the emersion of Post-Concussion Syndrome (PCS) acute onset in patientswith head injuries Method: This study was a cross-sectional analytic study ofpatients who experienced Post-Concussion Syndrome (PCS) after traumatic braininjury at DR. M. Djamil Hospital Padang in 2020 from June to November 2020. Datawere collected by filling in a questionnaire (The Rivermead Post ConcussionSymptoms Questionnaire) and medical record data of neurosurgical patients thatmet the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Result: : It indicated that 70 patients wereincluded in the inclusion criteria of this study. A total of 38 (54.3) respondents didnot undergo the acute onset of PCS, meanwhile respondents who experienced acuteonset of PCS were 32 (45.7) respondents. The results showed that 25 (67.6%)respondents with mild traumatic brain injury had PCS acute onset, while 4 (17.4%)respondents with moderate degree of traumatic brain injury had PCS acute onset,and 4 (17.4%) respondents had PCS acute onset PCS 3 (30%) respondentsexperienced severe traumatic brain injury with acute onset PCS and statistically thedifference in the proportion of data from each of these variables was significant witha p-value of 0.0001. The results of statistical tests showed that p value> 0.05 on thecorrelation between PCS and GCS, thus, it can be concluded that there was nocorrelation between the direction of the relationship between PCS and GCS.Conclusion There was no correlation between the degree of traumatic brain injurybased on GCS and the incidence of PCS acute onset, either it was unidirectional orvice versa in patients with head injuries at RSUP M. Djamil Padang.

Introduction: Diffuse axonal injury is a type of severe head injury. In overall head injury cases, it is estimated that 60% of severe head injuries and 40% of head injury cases were associated with diffuse axonal injury. Diffuse axonal injury is found in secondary brain injury with the occurrence of an ischemic brain. Magnesium sulfate plays a role as a deciphering agent in severe head injury and ischemic brains. This study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of magnesium sulfate administration in patients with diffuse axonal injury. Methods: This research was conducted using a quasi-experimental design for three months, from October to December 2019, involving patients with severe head injury admitted to the emergency room of Dr. M. Djamil General Hospital, Padang. Results: The results showed that magnesium sulfate administration was more effective than conventional therapy in improving the level of consciousness of patients with severe head injuries, but there was no significant difference between the two groups (p > 0.05). The number of patients was equally analyzed between the two study groups using independent t-test analysis on SPSS. Conclusion: Magnesium sulfate administration was more effective than conventional therapy, but the difference was not statistically significant. Age and onset must be considered by researchers to assess the performance of magnesium sulfate therapy in diffuse axonal injury patients.