Table 2 Numbers of patients who died in-hospital (n/n†), ordered by classes of main diagnoses; in-hospital mortality rates (MR) for class of diagnoses. Left – persistent CUE (n = 854, 463 males, 391 females; median age 65; median GCS 5). Right – transient CUE (n = 173, 107 males, 66 females; median age 65; median GCS [on-site] 8; median GCS [in ED] 14)
Main diagnosis | Persistent CUE | Transient CUE | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | n†| MR | n | n†| MR | ||
I | intracranial hemorrhage | 190 | 106 | 49% | 27 | 6 | 14% |
infarction | 95 | 47 | 9 | 0 | |||
inflammation | 22 | 5 | 2 | 0 | |||
tumor | 17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | |||
other primary CNS damage | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |||
II | epilepsy | 188 | 11 | 6% | 47 | 1 | 2% |
neuro-degenerative disease | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||
psychiatric disease | 21 | 0 | 13 | 0 | |||
III | cardiac/pulmonary | 53 | 15 | 13% | 10 | 1 | 3% |
metabolic/homeostatic | 50 | 12 | 11 | 0 | |||
septic encephalopathy | 25 | 5 | 5 | 0 | |||
intoxication | 165 | 3 | 25 | 0 | |||
other secondary CNS affection | 12 | 2 | 17 | 0 | |||
surgical emergency | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||