Table 1 |
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Baseline characteristics of patient population |
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| Characteristic |
Thiopental (n = 22) |
Pentobarbital (n = 22) |
P |
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| Sex (male; n) |
19 |
19 |
1 |
| Age (years) |
26 (20 to 41) |
32 (22 to 43) |
0.45 |
| ISS |
25 (24 to 34) |
25 (25 to 38) |
0.77 |
| SAPS II |
42 (28 to 54) |
43 (38 to 46) |
0.95 |
| APACHE II |
23 (15 to 25) |
20 (18 to 26) |
0.27 |
| APACHE III |
60 (38 to 73) |
52 (32 to 76) |
0.41 |
| Associated lesion (n) |
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| Thoracic injury |
7 |
2 |
0.13 |
| Abdominal injury |
4 |
1 |
0.34 |
| Extremities injury |
9 |
5 |
0.20 |
| Admission CT (n) |
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| Diffuse injury without brain swelling |
12 |
4 |
0.046 |
| Diffuse bilateral brain swelling |
6 |
12 |
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| Diffuse unilateral brain swelling with midline shift |
1 |
0 |
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| Any mass lesion > 25 ml |
3 |
6 |
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Age, ISS, SAPS II, APACHE II and APACHE III are expressed as median and interquartile range. APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; admission CT, admission computed tomography (according to the Traumatic Coma Data Bank); ISS, Injury Severity Score; SAPS, Simplified Acute Physiology. |
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Pérez-Bárcena et al. Critical Care 2008 12:R112 doi:10.1186/cc6999 |
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