Abstract
Objective: To describe the surgical results in patients operated on for traumatic brain injury in a hospital in Botswana. Methods: Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study, in the period from January 2023 to August 2023, at the Nyangabgwe Referal Hospital in Botswana. The sample under study consisted of 50 patients. General and specific variables of the traumatic Brain injury were analyzed. Results: The average age was 40.8 years, with a predominance of males (86%), the most frequent cause of head trauma was aggression (50%), chronic subdural hematoma predominated (36%), with intrahospital pneumonia being the complication more frequent (10%), mortality was 12%. Conclusions: Traumatic brain injury is a health problem in Botswana, it behaves with an incidence and prevalence that rises despite the small population of the country. Surgical results of a heterogeneous group of pathologies secondary to TBI were described.
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