Pre-hospital endotracheal intubation in severe traumatic brain injury: ventilation targets and mortality-a retrospective analysis of 308 patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains one of the main causes of mortality and long-term disability worldwide. Maintaining physiology of brain tissue to the greatest extent possible through optimal management of blood pressure, airway, ventilation, and oxygenation, improves patient outcome. We studied the quality of prehospital care in severe TBI patients by analyzing adherence to recommended target ranges for ventilation and blood pressure, prehospital time expenditure, and their effect on mortality, as well as quality of prehospital ventilation assessed by arterial partial pressure of CO₂ (PaCO₂) at hospital admission.

Methods

This is a retrospective cohort study of all TBI patients requiring tracheal intubation on scene who were transported

SUBMITTER: Knapp J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10498564 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature