Patterns of Motorbike Accidents Related Head Injuries in Patients Presenting to a Tertiary Care Hospital of Peshawar

Objective: To determine the different patterns of motorbike related head injuries in patients presenting to a tertiary care hospital of Peshawar.Materials and Methods: It was a prospective (observational) study, which was conducted at the Neurotrauma ward of Neurosurgery department, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar from January 2016 to June 2016. Total number of patients were 246. We included those patients who were having impaired Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), danger signs and having some abnormal findings on CT brain. We excluded those patients who were having GCS 15/15 and those patients of head injury having associated co-morbid conditions.Results: There were 230 (93.49%) males and 16 (6.5%) females. Age range was 1 to 80 years. Majority of pati-ents were drivers (55.28%). Only 6 (2.43%) drivers used helmet. Ninety patients (36.58%) had an ICU stay of more than one week. Seventy six (30.89%) patients were operated and 170 (69.1%) patients were treated con-servatively. Mortality was 14.63% in our study.Conclusion: Majority were males in our study, most of the patients who sustained head injury in motorbike accidents were drivers. Thirty six percent of the patients needed ICU stay of more than 1 week. Maximum of the patients needed conservative treatment