Age and Mortality in Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Results from an International Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although small series have suggested that younger age is associated with less favorable outcome after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), confounders and biases have limited our understanding of this relationship. We hypothesized that there would be an association between age and mortality in children within an ongoing observational, cohort study.

Methods

The first 200 subjects from the Approaches and Decisions for Acute Pediatric TBI trial were eligible for this analysis (inclusion criteria: severe TBI (Glasgow Coma Scale [GCS] score ≤ 8], age 18 years, and intracranial pressure (ICP) monitor placed; exclusion: pregnancy). Children with suspected abusive head trauma (AHT) were excluded to avoid bias related to the association between AHT and mortality. Demograph

SUBMITTER: Sarnaik A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10655613 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature