background: hyperglycemia is frequently encountered in critically ill patients and has been shown to contribute to both morbidity and mortality. we aimed to study the predictive role of blood glucose level in clinical outcomes of mechanically ventilated patients with traumatic brain injury during intensive care unit (icu) stay and to explore its relationship with glasgow coma scale (gcs) and ac...

Introduction: Head injury is one of the most critical conditions and has a serious neurological outcome if not treated promptly. Effective initial assessment timely intervention ensures favourable outcome. To achieve this, many scoring systems have been devised over years which Glasgow coma scale (GCS) widely used but it does few drawbacks. A newer scale, FOUR score (Full Outline UnResponsivene...

OBJECTIVE to determine predictive factors for prognosis of decompressive craniectomy in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), describing epidemiological findings and the major complications of this procedure. METHODS we conducted a retrospective study based on analysis of clinical and neurological outcome, using the extended Glasgow outcome in 56 consecutive patients diagnosed wi...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether NART scores are associated with severity of brain injury and therefore presumably affected by brain injury. In addition, to compare the Cambridge Contextual Reading Test (CCRT) with injury severity in head-injured individuals. DESIGN AND METHODS Participants were 55 survivors of traumatic head injury, who completed the NART and the CCRT. The scores on these pre...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Risk factors for infections after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and their association with outcomes are unknown. We hypothesized there are predictors of poststroke infection and infections drive worse outcomes. METHODS We determined prevalence of infections in a multicenter, triethnic study of ICH. We performed univariate and multivariate analyses to determine the asso...

Background. Encephalitis continues to be a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, there are few studies assessing prognostic factors in patients with acute encephalitis. An objective was to evaluate predictors of outcomes at hospital discharge for adult patients with acute encephalitis after inpatient evaluation. Methods. This was a retrospective study done at Memorial Hermann Hospital i...