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Clinical Epidemiology of Adults With Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury.


ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:To characterize admission patterns, treatments, and outcomes among patients with moderate traumatic brain injury. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. SETTING:National Trauma Data Bank. PATIENTS:Adults (age > 18 yr) with moderate traumatic brain injury (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth revision codes and admission Glasgow Coma Scale score of 9-13) in the National Trauma Data Bank between 2007 and 2014. INTERVENTIONS:None. MEASUREMENT AND MAIN RESULTS:Demographics, mechanism of injury, hospital course, and facility characteristics were examined. Admission characteristics associated with discharge outcomes were analyzed using multivariable Poisson regression models. Of 114,066 patients, most were white (62%), male (69%), and had median admission Glasgow Coma Scale score of 12 (interquartile range, 10-13). Seventy-seven percent had isolated traumatic brain injury. Concussion, which accounted for 25% of moderate traumatic brain injury, was the most frequent traumatic brain injury diagnosis. Fourteen percent received mechanical ventilation, and 66% were admitted to ICU. Over 50% received care at a community hospital. Seven percent died, and 32% had a poor outcome, including those with Glasgow Coma Scale score of 13. Compared with patients 18-44 years, patients 45-64 years were twice as likely (adjusted relative risk, 1.97; 95% CI, 1.92-2.02) and patients over 80 years were five times as likely (adjusted relative risk, 4.66; 95% CI, 4.55-4.76) to have a poor outcome. Patients with a poor discharge outcome were more likely to have had hypotension at admission (adjusted relative risk, 1.10; 95% CI, 1.06-1.14), lower admission Glasgow Coma Scale (adjusted relative risk, 1.37; 95% CI, 1.34-1.40), higher Injury Severity Score (adjusted relative risk, 2.97; 95% CI, 2.86-3.09), and polytrauma (adjusted relative risk, 1.05; 95% CI, 1.02-1.07), compared with those without poor discharge outcomes. CONCLUSIONS:Many patients with moderate traumatic brain injury deteriorate, require neurocritical care, and experience poor outcomes. Optimization of care and outcomes for this vulnerable group of patients are urgently needed.

SUBMITTER: Watanitanon A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5899009 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Clinical Epidemiology of Adults With Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury.

Watanitanon Arraya A   Lyons Vivian H VH   Lele Abhijit V AV   Krishnamoorthy Vijay V   Chaikittisilpa Nophanan N   Chandee Theerada T   Vavilala Monica S MS  

Critical care medicine 20180501 5


<h4>Objectives</h4>To characterize admission patterns, treatments, and outcomes among patients with moderate traumatic brain injury.<h4>Design</h4>Retrospective cohort study.<h4>Setting</h4>National Trauma Data Bank.<h4>Patients</h4>Adults (age > 18 yr) with moderate traumatic brain injury (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth revision codes and admission Glasgow Coma Scale score of 9-13) in the National Trauma Data Bank between 2007 and 2014.<h4>Interventions</h4>None.<h4>Measurement  ...[more]

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