Table 1.

The baseline characteristics of 120 patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) who were managed with and without ICP monitoring

	Case group (n=60)	Control group (n=60)	p -value
Age (years)	28.3 ±12.9	29.6±10.9	0.439
Sex
Men (%)	49 (81.6%)	52 (86.7%)	0.103
Women (%)	11 (18.4%)	8 (13.3%)
Mechanism of trauma
Vehicle collision (%)	24 (40.0%)	24 (40.0%)
Pedestrian collision (%)	21 (35.0%)	21 (35.0%)	0.215
Falling from moving object (%)	9 (15.0%)	12 (20.0%)
Falling from height (%)	4 (6.6%)	3 (5.0%)
Assault trauma (%)	2 (3.4%)	0 (0.0%)
Glasgow coma scale (GCS)	6. ±1.3	6.4 ±0.9	0.689
3 (%)	1 (1.7%)	0 (0.0%)
4 (%)	3 (5.0%)	7 (11.7%)
5 (%)	12 (20.0%)	10 (8.3%)	0.317
6 (%)	21 (35.0%)	21 (35.0%)
7 (%)	18 (30.0%)	15 (25.0%)
8 (%)	5 (8.3%)	7 (11.6%)