Abstract
are due to highway accidents and, in over 70 percent of this group. head injury is the prime cause of death(2). Complicating the pathophysiologic sequelae of head injury in the trauma patient is the increasing frequency of alcohol and drugalcohol intoxication(3). The official United States statistics, from 1955 to the present, indicate that 25 percent of automobile accidents are related to alcohol intoxication; this does not include the 25 to 30 percent of the people involved in accidents who refuse to permit a blood analysis for alcohol content(4). Further complicating the evaluation and treatment of the accident vic-
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