Table 2.

Lesions, treatments and outcomes

GCS score at ICU discharge	3–6	7–9	10–12	13–15	Total	p-Value
Patients (n)	83	46	101	308	538
Predominant lesion (% of patients)
Normal CT scan	3.6	0.0	2.0	6.2	4.5	n.s.
Diffuse oedema	3.6	4.3	3.0	2.9	3.2	n.s.
Subarachnoid haemorrhage	3.6	4.3	5.0	6.2	5.4	n.s.
Contusion	15.7	26.1	15.8	22.1	20.3	n.s.
Epidural haematoma	7.2	13.0	21.8	20.1	17.8	<0.05
Subdural haematoma	49.4	45.7	42.6	29.5	36.4	<0.01
Intracerebral haemorrhage	15.7	6.5	9.9	11.7	11.5	n.s.
Not specified	1.2	0.0	0.0	1.3	0.9	n.s.
Treatment
Pre-hospital airway management (% of patients)	77.1	63.0	65.3	55.8	61.5	<0.01
Helicopter transport (% of patients)	25.3	15.2	15.8	20.1	19.7	n.s.
Direct transfer (% of patients)	69.9	69.6	67.3	68.2	68.4	n.s.
ICP monitoring (% of patients)	67.5	69.6	53.5	40.3	49.4	<0.001
Neurosurgery (% of patients)	72.3	78.3	72.3	54.2	62.5	<0.001
Ventilation days (median)	10.0	11.0	7.0	5.0	7.0	<0.001
Ventilation days (IQR)	7.0–12	5.3–20.3	3.0–13	2.0–13	3.0–14
ICU stay (days, median)	10.0	14.0	10.0	10.0	10.0	<0.001
ICU stay (days, IQR)	9.5–19	10–25.5	5–20.5	4.0–22	5.0–21
Hospital stay (days, median)	27.9	28.4	21.8	18.5	21.6	<0.001
Hospital stay (days, IQR)	16.9–43	19.4–54.3	15.4–35.6	10.7–34.2	12.4–38.9
One-year outcome (% of patients)
Good recovery	3.6	15.2	45.5	70.1	50.6	<0.001
Moderate disability	6.0	21.7	37.6	23.1	23.0	<0.001
Severe disability	20.5	15.2	11.9	3.9	8.9	<0.001
Persistent vegetative	25.3	23.9	0.0	0.0	5.9	<0.001
Death	44.6	23.9	5.0	2.9	11.5	<0.001
Favourable outcome	9.6	37.0	83.2	93.2	73.6	<0.001

GCS Glasgow Coma Scale, ICU intensive care unit, ICP intracranial pressure, IQR interquartile range