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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2018 Oct;19(10):957–964. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000001676

Table 2.

Computerized Tomography findings and outcomes

Characteristics N(%)
[Indeterminate N(%)]
Mortality
OR (95% CI)
P GOS-E Peds
OR (95% CI)
P
Skull Fracture 41 (55%) 1.67 (0.29, 9.74) 0.57 1.49 (0.59, 3.71) 0.40
Extra axial hematoma 53 (71%) 2.17 (0.24, 19.82) 0.49 1.26 (0.46, 3.44) 0.65
Epidural hematoma 8 (11%) 1.69 (0.17, 16.57) 0.65 0.41 (0.08, 2.07) 0.28
Subdural hematoma 49 (65%) 2.86 (0.32, 25.90) 0.35 2.45 (0.90, 6.67) 0.08
Intracerebral hemorrhage 42 (56%) 1.67 (0.29, 9.74) 0.57 1.82 (0.72, 4.59) 0.20
Intraventricular hemorrhage 22 (29%) 1.24 (0.21, 7.33) 0.81 2.22 (0.83, 5.97) 0.11
Subarachnoid hemorrhage 40 (53%) 5.31 (0.59, 47.98) 0.14 3.36 (1.30, 8.70) 0.01
Midline shift 23 (31%) 4.95 (0.84, 29.31) 0.08 1.12 (0.43, 2.95) 0.81
Cisternal compression 18 (24%) 0.58 (0.06, 5.29) 0.63 0.88 (0.31, 2.51) 0.81
Fourth ventricle shift 7 (9%)
[1 (1%)]
* 0.85 1.78 (0.40, 7.92)
3.96 (0.09, 169.51)
0.59
Diffuse axonal injury 17 (23%)
[48 (64%)]
* 0.93 7.39 (1.17, 46.51)
2.65 (0.49, 14.29)
0.06
Contusion 36 (48%)
[2 (3%)]
* 1.00 1.00 (0.40, 2.50)
1.00 (0.06, 16.13)
1.00
Penetrating injury 0 (0%)
Cervicomedullary junction or brainstem injury 1 (1%)
[2 (3%)]
* 1.00 * 0.63
Edema 20 (27%)
[2 (3%)]
* 0.84 2.04 (0.74, 5.67)
1.24 (0.08, 19.67)
0.39
Brain swelling 18 (24%)
[2 (3%)]
* 0.39 1.94 (0.69, 5.47)
1.18 (0.08, 18.69)
0.45
Ischemia or infarction or hypoxic-ischemic injury 4 (5%)
[4 (5%)]
* 0.55 1.09 (0.14, 7.82)
4.00 (0.57, 28.04)
0.38
Brain atrophy 0 (0%)

GOS-E Peds = Glasgow Outcome Scale – Extended Pediatric Revision; OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval;

*

Quasi–complete separation of data points detected, may be due to sparse data