Table 3 Intracranial pressure monitoring, intracranial hypertension and need for neurosurgery
≥ 65 years | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variables | Total (n = 349) | GOSE score ≤ 4 (n = 233) | Number of patients with data | GOSE score ≥ 5 (n = 116) | Number of patients with data | p |
Intracranial pressure monitoring | 148 (63) | 101 (68) | 148 | 47 (54) | 87 | 0.029 |
Intracranial pressure monitoring Glasgow Coma Scale score ≤ 8 | 107 (73) | 81 (73) | 111 | 26 (72) | 36 | 0.930 |
Intracranial hypertension, > 20 mm Hg | 52 (35) | 39 (39) | 13 (28) | 0.194 | ||
-Osmotherapy | 94 (27) | 77 (33) | 233 | 17 (15) | 116 | < 0.001 |
-Barbiturates | 28 (8) | 22 (9) | 233 | 6 (5) | 116 | 0.167 |
-Hyperventilation | 10 (3) | 8 (3) | 233 | 2 (2) | 116 | 0.506 |
Neurosurgery* | 92 (26) | 65 (28) | 233 | 27 (23) | 116 | 0.356 |
-Extradural or subdural haematoma | 65 (19) | 48 (21) | 233 | 17 (15) | 116 | 0.179 |
-Lobectomy | 10 (3) | 5 (2) | 233 | 5 (4) | 116 | 0.310 |
-Decompressive craniectomy | 6 (2) | 5 (2) | 233 | 1 (1) | 116 | 0.668 |