Table 1.
Characteristics of the participating departments and ICUs.
| All (N = 83) |
Uni-Department (UD, N = 36) | Non-Uni-Department (Non-UD, N = 47) |
Sig | NICU (N = 38) |
Non-NICU (N = 45) |
Sig | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICU patient population (N, %) | |||||||
| Only neurological | 29 (35%) | 17 (47%) * | 12 (26%) * | p = 0.040 + | 28/38 (74%) | 1/45 (2%) * | p < 0.001 + |
| Only neurosurgical | 2 (2%) | 2 (6%) | 0 (0%) | n.s. | 2/38 (5%) | 0/45 (0%) | n.s. |
| Interdisciplinary | 52 (63%) | 17 (47%) * | 35 (75%) * | p = 0.011 + | 8/38 (21%) | 44/45 (98%) * | p < 0.001 + |
| N = 83 | N = 36 | N = 47 | N = 38 | N = 45 | |||
| Specialty of ICU (department association, N, %) | |||||||
| Neurology | 34 (41%) | 20 (56%) * | 14 (30%) * | p = 0.018 + | 34/38 (90%) * | 0/45 (0%) * | p < 0.001 + |
| Neurosurgery | 4 (5%) | 4 (11%) * | 0 (0) * | p = 0.019 + | 4/38 (11%) * | 0/45 (0%) * | p = 0.026 + |
| Anesthesiology | 15 (18%) | 1 (3%) * | 14 (30%) * | p = 0.002 + | 0/38 (0%) * | 15/45 (33%) * | p < 0.001 + |
| Internal Medicine | 8 (10%) | 2 (6%) | 6 (13%) | n.s. | 0/38 (0%) * | 8/45 (18%) * | p = 0.006 + |
| Interdisciplinary | 22 (27%) | 9 (25%) | 13 (28%) | n.s. | 0/38 (0%) * | 22/45 (49%) * | p < 0.001 + |
| N = 83 | N = 36 | N = 47 | N = 38 | N = 45 | |||
| Median ICU bed size (range) | 12 (5–40) | 12 (6–35) | 12 (5–40) | n.s. | 12 (5–28) * | 16 (6–40) * | p = 0.002 # |
| N = 83 | N = 36 | N = 47 | N = 38 | N = 45 | |||
| Number of neurological patients per month (N, %) | |||||||
| <1–10 | 22 (27%) | 3 (8%) * | 19 (40%) * | p = 0.001 + | 0 (0%) * | 22 (49%) * | p < 0.001 + |
| 11–30 | 29 (35%) | 13 (36%) | 16 (34%) | n.s. | 13 (36%) | 16 (34%) | n.s. |
| >30 | 32 (39%) | 20 (56%) * | 12 (26%) * | p = 0.005 + | 25 (66%) * | 7 (16%) * | p < 0.001 + |
| N = 83 | N = 36 | N = 47 | N = 38 | N = 45 | |||
| Estimated number of SE in 2018 per department (median N, range) | 35 (3–250) | 45 (3–250) | 30 (4–150) | n.s. | 50 (3–200) | 30 (4–250) | n.s. |
| N = 71 | N = 32 | N = 39 | N = 32 | N = 39 | |||
| Estimated percentage of SE types in 2018 (median N, range) | |||||||
| Generalized | 30 (1–85) | 30 (5–80) | 25 (1–85) | n.s. | 30 (5–80) | 30 (1–85) | n.s. |
| Non-convulsive | 40 (5–90) | 40 (20–85) | 40 (5–90) | n.s. | 42.5 (20–90) | 40 (5–85) | n.s. |
| Focal | 20 (0–50) | 17.5 (0–50) | 20 (0–50) | n.s. | 19.5 (0–40) | 20 (0–50) | n.s. |
| Absence | 1 (0–20) | 0.5 (0–20) | 1 (0–20) | n.s. | 2 (0–20) | 0 (0–20) | n.s. |
| N = 71 | N = 32 | N = 39 | N = 32 | N = 39 | |||
| Estimated frequency of SE stages in percent in 2018 (median N, range) | |||||||
| Responsive | 40 (10–80) | 40 (10–70) | 40 (0–80) | n.s. | 40 (0–80) | 40 (8–80) | n.s. |
| Established | 30 (5–62) | 30 (10–60) | 25 (5–62) | n.s. | 30 (5–60) | 30 (10–62) | n.s. |
| Refractory | 15 (4–60) | 15 (5–60) | 20 (4–60) | n.s. | 15 (5–55) | 20 (4–60) | n.s. |
| Super-refractory | 10 (0–50) | 5 (0–50) | 10 (0–50) | n.s. | 10 (0–50) | 10 (0–30) | n.s. |
| N = 71 | N = 32 | N = 39 | N = 32 | N = 39 |
3rd and 4th column: descriptive differences between University departments (Uni-department, UD) and Non-university departments (non-Uni-department, Non-UD), significance values in column 5; 6th and 7th column: descriptive differences between neurological/neurosurgical ICU (NICU) and non- neurological/neurosurgical ICU (Non-NICU), significance of differences in column 8; N number of respondents, n.s. non significant, Sig Significance, ICU intensive care unit, SE status epilepticus; * = significant, p = p-value; #: Mann-Whitney U test; +: Z test and Bonferroni correction.