Clinical Deterioration and Neurocritical Care Utilization in Pediatric Patients With Glasgow Coma Scale Score of 9-13 After Traumatic Brain Injury: Associations With Patient and Injury Characteristics.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To define the clinical characteristics of hospitalized children with moderate traumatic brain injury and identify factors associated with deterioration to severe traumatic brain injury.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Tertiary Children's Hospital with Level 1 Trauma Center designation.

Patients

Inpatient children less than 18 years old with an International Classification of Diseases code for traumatic brain injury and an admission Glasgow Coma Scale score of 9-13.

Measurements and results

We queried the National Trauma Data Bank for our institutional data and identified 177 patients with moderate traumatic brain injury from 2010 to 2017. These patients were then linked to the electronic health record to obtain baseline and injury c

SUBMITTER: Soysal E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8570972 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature