Intracranial pressure monitoring and inpatient mortality in severe traumatic brain injury: A propensity score-matched analysis

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 492-502

  Dawes, Aaron J ^a,b,c   Sacks, Greg D ^a,b   Cryer, H Gill ^a   Gruen, J Peter ^a,c   Preston, Christy ^a,d   Gorospe, Deidre ^a,d   Cohen, Marilyn ^a   McArthur, David L ^a   Russell, Marcia M ^a,c   Maggard Gibbons, Melinda ^a,c   Ko, Clifford Y ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

intracranial pressure monitoring; mortality; propensity score; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTUSION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RISK FACTOR; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VERY ELDERLY; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INJURY SCALE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INPATIENTS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 84924198820     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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