[Acute craniocerebral trauma].

We investigated retrospectively 761 acute head trauma patients, who were admitted to our intensive care unit from 1983 to 1989. The objective of our study was to investigate the influence of pre-hospital acute care and intensive care protocols on mortality and outcome. We showed that the introduction of organized pre-hospital emergency care and well organized interdisciplinary patient management in the hospital and in the intensive care unit had a significant effect on outcome.