Risk factors predicting prognosis and outcome of elderly patients with isolated traumatic brain injury.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), particularly in the elderly patient population, is known to be the single largest cause of death and disability worldwide. The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate clinical factors predicting poor outcome with special emphasis on the impact of respiratory failure (RF) on mortality in elderly patients with isolated severe TBI.

Methods

All elderly patients (age ≥ 65 years) with isolated severe head injury, admitted to this level I trauma center, during a period of 18 years (from January 1992 to December 2010) were identified from the trauma registry. The medical records were reviewed for demographics, mechanism of injury (MOI), GCS score at admission, RF, pupillary light reflex (LR), CT findings (subdural hematoma, subara

SUBMITTER: Ostermann RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6215630 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature