Combined Craniocerebral and Skeletal Injuries Associated With Alcohol Consumption

Abstract

The article has emphasized the problem of injuries related to alcohol consumption. An analysis of contemporary research on this topic and own data have been given. Intoxicated patients had more severe injuries, a more serious course of illness, a greater incidence of complications and mortality. Alcohol intoxication provoked formation of delayed intracranial hematomas. The tendency to form multiple intracranial hematomas and subarachnoid hemorrhages in alcohol abusers was explained by atrophic processes in the brain, subdural spaces extension, toxic lesions of the cerebral vessels. Intoxicated patients should be regarded as a high-risk group in terms of availability of severe traumatic brain injuries, as their condition