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Table 4 Patients’ characteristics according to ICP monitoring or not

From: Characteristics and therapeutic profile of TBI patients who underwent bilateral decompressive craniectomy: experience with 151 cases

 

ICP monitoring, n = 90

None-ICP monitoring, n = 61

P value

Age (yrs)

45.38 (31.7–58.4)

48.21 (29.14–57.13)

0.661

Male (n, %)

63 (70.0)

41(67.3)

0.725

Mechanism of injury (n, %)

  

0.635

 Motor vehicle accident

26 (28.7)

18 (29.5)

 

 Fall

20 (22.2)

7 (11.4)

 

 Stumble

22 (24.4)

12 (19.7)

 

 Blow to head

22 (24.4)

8 (8.8)

 

 Others

10 (11.1)

6 (6.6)

 

Pupillary reactions (n, %)

  

0.719

 Both reacting

26 (28.9)

20 (32.8)

 

 One reacting

35 (38.9)

25 (40.9)

 

 None reacting

29 (32.2)

16 (26.3)

 

GCS at admission

9.37 ± 4.96

10.59 ± 3.88

0.778

Type of injury (n, %)#

   

 SDH

33 (36.7)

19 (31.2)

0.601

 EDH

17 (18.9)

11 (18.1)

0.999

 IPH

34 (37.8)

16 (26.2)

0.161

 tSAH

47 (52.2)

32 (52.5)

0.999

 DAI

21 (23.3)

15 (24.6)

0.848

 Skull fracture

34 (37.8)

23 (37.7)

0.999

Coagulopathy (n, %)

18 (20.0)

12 (19.6)

> 0.999

WBCs, (x109/L)

16.09 ± 5.17

12.31 ± 3.15

< 0.001*

NLR, (%)

12.14 ± 9.52

11.48 ± 5.54

0.431

  1. Data are given as mean ± SD, n (%), or median (IQR) unless otherwise noted
  2. DAI diffused axonal injury, EDH extradural hematoma, ICP intracranial pressure, IPH intra-parenchyma hematoma, NLR neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, SDH subdural hematoma, tSAH traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage, USS unplanned secondary surgery, WBC white blood cells
  3. *P < 0.05.
  4. #Patients may suffer more than one item