Table 5.
Likelihood of receiving an intracranial pressure directed therapy in 2010 cohort compared to 2000 cohort among children with GCS ≤ 8, Referent = year 2000.
| 2010 (n=60) |
2000 (n=54) |
RR (95% CI) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| ICP measured | |||
| Yes | 10 | 18 | 0.5 (0.3-1.0) |
| No | 49 | 36 | |
| Ventriculostomy | |||
| Yes | 7 | 9 | 0.7 (0.3-1.8) |
| No | 52 | 45 | |
| Barbiturate Coma | |||
| Yes | 4 | 2 | 1.8 (0.3-9.6) |
| No | 55 | 52 | |
| Cooling | |||
| Yes | 5 | 8 | 0.6 (0.2-1.6) |
| No | 54 | 46 | |
| Hyperventilation* | |||
| Yes | 4 | 13 | 0.3 (0.1-0.8) |
| No | 55 | 41 | |
| Intubation | |||
| Yes | 58 | 48 | 1.1 (1.0-1.2) |
| No | 1 | 6 | |
| Hyperosmolar therapy | |||
| Yes | 20 | 28 | 0.7 (0.4-1.0) |
| No | 38 | 25 | |
| Steroids* | |||
| Yes | 5 | 4 | 1.2 (0.3-4.1) |
| No | 53 | 50 |
*
Use of hyperventilation (except for episodes of herniation) and steroids are not recommended for controlling elevated intracranial pressure in the Guidelines.