Outcomes of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients Managed in a Non-Intensive Care Unit Setting.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The management of traumatic brain injury (TBI) requires significant health-care resources. The modified Brain Injury Guidelines (mBIG) stratifies TBI patients by severity to help guide disposition and management. We sought to analyze the outcomes of TBI patients managed in a non-intensive care unit (ICU) setting after stratifying them using the mBIG criteria.

Methods

A retrospective single-center study was performed on all adult patients who sustained blunt TBI from 2021 to 2022 and were managed in a non-ICU setting. Primary outcome was unplanned upgrade to the ICU. Secondary outcomes were need for neurosurgical intervention, unplanned intubation, mortality, and hospital length of stay. Patients were divided into cohorts of mBIG 1 & 2 versus mBIG 3.

Results</

SUBMITTER: Roberge Bouchard D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11845032 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature