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. 2019 May 3;161(7):1275–1284. doi: 10.1007/s00701-019-03915-3

Table 2.

Univariate/bivariate logistic regression analysis for IMPACT core and physiologic variables

Variable A/D AUC (95% CI) p value F/U AUC (95% CI) p value
Age 0.737 (0.652–0.737) < 0.0001 0.680 (0.605–0.754) < 0.0001
Admission GCS Motor 0.559 (0.409–0.612) 0.160 0.576 (0.497–0.655) 0.022
Admission Pupil Reactivity 0.440 (0.336–0.524) 0.196 0.440 (0.372–0.507) 0.228
Mean ICP 0.642 (0.538–0.746) < 0.0001 0.495 (0.413–0.577) 0.059
Mean AMP 0.671 (0.567–0.775) < 0.0001 0.527 (0.445–0.609) 0.045
Mean RAP* 0.669 (0.575–0.762) 0.002 0.659 (0.582–0.735) 0.0007
Mean RAP AUC Above 0 0.619 (0.526–0.712) 0.015 0.495 (0.413–0.576) 0.359
Mean RAP AUC above + 0.4 0.635 (0.544–0.727) 0.007 0.539 (0.458–0.620) 0.137
wICP 0.712 (0.615–0.810) 0.0002 0.627 (0.548–0.705) 0.015
Multi-variable models
ICP + RAP AUC Above 0 0.618 (0.525–0.711) < 0.0001 0.495 (0.414–0.577) 0.126
ICP + RAP AUC above + 0.4 0.633 (0.541–0.724) < 0.0001 0.538 (0.457–0.619) 0.069
ICP + AMP 0.657 (0.553–0.760) 0.007 0.508 (0.426–0.590) 0.222
ICP + AMP + mean RAP 0.653 (0.548–0.758) 0.0001 0.503 (0.421–0.586) 0.001

Italicized p values are those reaching significance (i.e., p < 0.05). *Despite these mean values of RAP demonstrate significant associations with the dichotomized outcomes, they are difficult to interpret given the nature of RAP. RAP values near 0 can mean both good and poor compensatory reserve, as such, during the averaging process to produce mean values over a recording period, it becomes difficult to interpret the meaning of such measures

AMP pulse amplitude of ICP, A/D alive/dead, AUC area under the receiver operating curve, CI confidence interval, F/U favorable/unfavorable outcome (i.e., favorable = Glasgow Outcome Scale of 5 to 8; unfavorable = Glasgow Outcome Scale of 1 to 4), ICP intra-cranial pressure, IMPACT International Mission for Prognosis and Analysis of Clinical Trials, RAP compensatory reserve index (moving correlation between AMP and ICP), RAP AUC integrated area under the RAP curve over time, wICP compensatory-reserve-weighted ICP (wICP = (1 − RAP) × ICP)