Population
135 patients who died during their initial hospitalization after severe traumatic brain injury, mean age…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
initial hospitalization (mean length of stay 2.9 days)
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Nonneurologic organ dysfunction contributes substantially to post-TBI mortality; hypothesis-generating for targeted cardiovascular-respiratory support trials.
Nonneurologic organ dysfunction, particularly cardiovascular and respiratory, contributes to a significant proportion of deaths after severe traumatic brain injury.
Kemp et al. (2008) studied this question.
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