The management of craniocerebral trauma begins at the site of the accident.\nThis is one of the diseases for which pre-hospital care is well codified. The\nobjective of this study is to report the experience of the Emergency Aid Medical\nService (EMAS) of BENIN in the pre-hospital management of craniocerebral\ntrauma. 146 head injuries were cared for. 116 were male. The mean age\nwas 32 years with extremes ranging from 2 to 77 years. Etiology in 68% of patients\nwas a public road accident. And the request for the use of the EMAS\nwas made by highway users for 41% of the injuries. About 5.5% were severe\ncranio-brain injuries, more than 75% of which had died in intensive care. In\n77% of the EMAS interventions, there was an intensive care physician in the\nteam. 34 wounded had been transported in a vacuum mattress. The rigid cervical\ncollar was used in 8 major traumas. All the wounded were transported\nby ambulance. The duration of hospitalization varied from a few hours in the\nemergency department to 90 days in the hospital ward. 9 patients died. One\nof them, who died in an ambulance, was a woman. The prehospital medical\ncare of head trauma in BENIN is still progressing.
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