Epidemiology of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury at Sylvanus Olympio University Hospital of Lomé in Togo.

Introduction: Severe pediatric traumatic brain injury (pTBI) is a leading cause of disability and death in children worldwide. Children victims of pTBI are admitted to the Sylvanus Olympio University Hospital (SOUH) at the multipurpose Intensive Care Unit (ICU). We aimed in this study to describe the epidemiologic characteristics and outcomes of pTBI patients admitted in this ICU.

Emergency admissions in sub Saharan Africa: example of the surgical emergency admissions unit at the Sylvanus Olympio Teaching Hospital of Lomé, Togo.

The management of patients in emergency departments is an important indicator of the quality of a healthcare system. In sub-Saharan Africa, emergency care is characterized by human and material difficulties. The purpose of this work was to assess the difficulties in managing emergencies at the surgical emergency admissions unit of Sylvanus Olympio teaching hospital of Lomé.

Causes of deaths in the intensives care unit of Sylvanus Olympio Teaching Hospital, Lomé, Togo.

To analyze the causes of deaths in the intensive care unit (ICU) at the CHU Sylvanus Olympio (CHU SO) teaching hospital of Lomé. This retrospective study examined the files of patients who died in the ICU of CHU SO, during the 12-month period from November 2012 to October 2013. Of 732 patients admitted to the ICU, 237 died, for a mortality rate of 32.