Adverse Prehospital Events and Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

While national guidelines recommend avoidance of hypoxia, hypotension, and hypocarbia in the prehospital care of traumatic brain injury (TBI), limited data validate the association of these adverse physiologic events with TBI outcomes.

Objective

To validate the associations of prehospital hypoxia, hypotension, and hypocarbia with TBI outcomes in a US national trauma network.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study examined data from 8 level I trauma centers and their affiliated ground and air emergency medical services (EMS) agencies in the Linking Investigations in Trauma and Emergency Services (LITES) Network from January 1, 2017, to June 30, 2021. Adult patients (aged ≥18 years) with confirmed TBI (head Abbreviated Injury Score [AIS] of 1-6)

SUBMITTER: Maiga AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11786231 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature