Fig. 3.

Pattern of declining microdialysate glucose after TBI: Upper panel: Graph showing initially ‘normal’ followed by declining mean microdialysate glucose concentrations after post-injury day 5 in those patients who went on to have a good outcome (Glasgow Outcome Scale extended (GOSe) 5 to 8). Figure originally published in the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (Vespa et al. 2003). Lower panel: Pooled microdialysis glucose concentrations averaged by day of monitoring and split by outcome categories demonstrating declining median concentrations over the course of a week of post-injury monitoring. Figure originally published in Brain (Timofeev et al. 2011a)