Initial Assessment of Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) for the Outcome of Head Injury Patients at Emergency Department in General Hospital of Ulin Banjarmasin

Abstract

There were 162 cases of head injury from January to March 2019, the highest presentation was mild head injury (63%). Head injury is the top 10 cases of surgery for this current time. MAP is a compensation mechanism to maintain the pressure of cerebral perfusion. If the blood flow from the systemic circulation >100 mmHg it would potentially increase the ICP and if the blood flow <60 mmHg it would bring hypoxia, loss of consciousness, and the death of brain cells. This study aimed to determine the outcome of head injury patients by the initial assessment of MAP at emergency department in General Hospital of Ulin Banjarmasin. The research was conducted from March 4 th , 2019 until April 21 st , 2019 with observation sheet, the method used in this study was a descriptive explorative analytic observational with accidental sampling technique for 51 patients of head injury at emergency department in General Hospital of Ulin Banjarmasin. The results showed that the mean value of MAP was 93.33 mmHg for the lived and died head injury respondents.