Association between alcohol intoxication and mortality in severe traumatic brain injury in the emergency department: a retrospective cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Acute alcohol intoxication is very common in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Whether there is an independent association between alcohol intoxication and mortality is debated. This study hypothesized that alcohol intoxication is independently associated with less mortality after severe TBI (sTBI).

Methods

This retrospective observational cohort study included all patients with sTBI [head-Abbreviated Injury Score (AIS) ≥3, corresponding to serious head injury or worse] admitted from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2016 in an academic level I trauma center. Patients were classified as with alcohol intoxication or without intoxication based on blood alcohol concentration or description of alcohol intoxication on admission. The primary endpoint was in

SUBMITTER: van Wijck SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7919698 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature