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Basic clinical data and course in study infants |
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| Patient |
Age (years) |
Sex |
Type of trauma |
Glasgow Coma Scale on admission |
Peak ICP (mmHg) |
Initial cranial CT |
Extent of craniectomy |
Timepoint of craniectomy (days post-trauma) |
Extubation (days post-trauma) |
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| 1 |
5 |
Female |
Fall (3 m) |
4 |
43 |
Bilateral skull fracture, infratentorial tSAH, DBS |
Bilateral |
1 and 2 |
7 |
| 2 |
5 |
Female |
Fall (5 m) |
5 |
30 |
Right-sided frontal brain contusion and tSAH, secondary DBS |
Bilateral |
3 and 5 |
8 |
| 3 |
11 |
Female |
Child abuse |
3 |
30 |
Right-sided acute subdural hematoma, extensive DBS |
Right |
1 |
6 |
| 4 |
6 |
Male |
Car accident |
4 |
70 |
Unilateral skull fracture; brain contusion in frontal lobe, basal ganglia and corpus callosum (DAI) |
Bilateral |
6 |
11 |
| 5 |
11 |
Male |
Car accident |
3 |
41 |
Left-sided calvarial and skull base fracture, tSAH, DBS |
Left |
2 |
9 |
| 6 |
9 |
Female |
Kick by a horse |
7 |
20 |
Left-sided temporal brain contusions, traumatic ventricular bleeding, infratentorial tSAH |
Suboccipital |
2 |
7 |
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CT, computed tomography; DAI, diffuse axonal injury; DBS, diffuse brain swelling; ICP, intracranial pressure; tSAH, traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage. | |||||||||
Ruf et al. Critical Care 2003 7:R133 doi:10.1186/cc2361 |
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