Anastasia Alexopoulou Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Glasgow Coma Scale, raumatic brain injury, CT scan, ICU
Anastasia Alexopoulou, Intensive Care at Trauma, Hospital of Athens, KAT, Kifissia, Athens, Greece
Anastasia Alexopoulou, Intensive Care at Trauma, Hospital of Athens, KAT, Kifissia, Athens, Greece, Specialized in the subject of patients with severe traumatic brain injury, Traumatic brain injury; Glasgow Coma Scale; Clinical predictors; CT scan; ICU
Research Article Open Access
Author(s): Leonidas Grigorakos, Anastasia Alexopoulou, Katerina Tzortzopoulou, Stamatοula Stratouli, Despoina Chroni, Eleni Papadaki, Ioannis Alamanos and Nikolaos Sakellaridis
Background: Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with a high mortality and morbidity rate and is one of the leading causes of death in the intensive care units. The aim of this study was to examine predictors of hospital outcome in adult patients admitted to ICU because of severe TBI. Methods: A retrospective study was carried on patients (n=621) with severe head injury, defined as Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) ≤ 8 who were admitted to the general ICU over a 15-year period (1999-2013). Most important variables that could be correlated with outcome (demographics, cause of injury, GCS, clinical variables and computed tomography–CT scan) were analysed. Results: Total mortality rate was 27.38%. Patients older than 75 years had a mortality rate of 57.14%. 70.05% of the patie... view moreĀ»