Advanced age, male sex, hypertension, trauma, postoperative intracranial complications, and lower GCS are independent risk factors for sepsis in critically ill post-craniotomy patients.
Sepsis is a frequent complication in critically ill post-craniotomy patients. Advanced age, male, hypertension, trauma, postoperative intracranial complications, and lower GCS on the first postoperative day were independent risk factors of sepsis.
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