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. 2025 Aug 28;62:101669. doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2025.101669

Table 2.

Management of patients in the first 7 days.

Hospital management Overall N = 5772 Surgery N = 1411 No surgery N = 4361 p-value
Surgical procedure time from hospital arrival
 Same day 977 (69.3%)
 2nd day 336 (23.9%)
 More than 2 days 96 (6.8%)
Surgical procedure type
 Craniotomy 1025 (72.6%)
 Endoscopy 68 (4.8%)
 Catheter aspiration with or without thrombolysis 318 (22.5%)
Admission department to hospital, n (%)
 Neurosurgery 4707 (81.5%) 1086 (77.0%) 3621 (83.0%) <0.0001
 Neurology 324 (5.6%) 18 (1.3%) 306 (7.0%) <0.0001
 Intensive care 628 (10.9%) 279 (19.8%) 349 (8.0%) <0.0001
 Emergency department 23 (0.4%) 8 (0.6%) 15 (0.3%) <0.0001
 Others 90 (1.6%) 20 (1.4%) 70 (1.6%) <0.0001
Treatment during the first 24 h
 BP lowering treatment, n (%) 4515 (78.2%) 1221 (86.5%) 3294 (75.5%) <0.0001
 Intensive treatment for glucose control, n (%) 371 (6.4%) 92 (6.5%) 279 (6.4%) 0.8704
 Oral agents for glycaemic control, n (%) 302 (81.4%) 75 (81.5%) 227 (81.4%) 0.9728
 Insulin treatment for glycaemic control, n (%) 89 (24.0%) 20 (21.7%) 69 (24.7%) 0.5600
 Antipyrexia treatment, n (%) 448 (7.8%) 242 (17.2%) 206 (4.7%) <0.0001
Management during 2–7 days
 Intravenous BP lowering, n (%) 3979 (68.9%) 1168 (82.8%) 2811 (64.5%) <0.0001
 Oral BP lowering, n (%) 3926 (68.0%) 807 (57.2%) 3119 (71.5%) <0.0001
 Insulin, n (%) 701 (12.1%) 264 (18.7%) 437 (10.0%) <0.0001
 Pyrexia treatment, n (%) 1160 (20.1%) 612 (43.4%) 548 (12.6%) <0.0001
 PCC administrated, n (%) 548 (9.5%) 219 (15.5%) 329 (7.5%) <0.0001
 Fresh frozen plasma, n (%) 143 (2.5%) 112 (7.9%) 31 (0.7%) <0.0001
 Vitamin K administrated, n (%) 234 (4.1%) 105 (7.4%) 129 (3.0%) <0.0001
 Mechanical ventilation, n (%) 1170 (20.3%) 911 (64.6%) 259 (5.9%) <0.0001
 Intensive care admission, n (%) 2099 (36.4%) 1051 (74.5%) 1048 (24.0%) <0.0001
 Assisted feeding, n (%) 2965 (51.4%) 1103 (78.2%) 1862 (42.7%) <0.0001
 Decision to withdraw active care, n (%) 30 (0.5%) 8 (0.6%) 22 (0.5%) 0.7766

Data are n (%), mean (SD), or median (IQR).

BP, denotes blood pressure; FFP, fresh frozen plasma; ICU, intensive care unit; PCC, prothrombin complex concentrate.