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Usefulness of common intensive care severity scores in predicting Six month mortality of patients with traumatic brain injury
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Abstract
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) causes a severe toll on society as a leading cause of mortality worldwide and the major cause of disability among young adults. The prognosis after TBI had been particularly challenging to predict, with limited availability of robust prognostic models. Aim: To evaluate the usefulness of the APACHE II (acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II), SAPS II (simplified acute physiology score II) and SOFA (sequential organ failure assessment) scores compared to simpler models based on age and glasgow coma scale (GCS) in predicting a six month mortality of patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the intensive care unit (ICU). Methods: A Prospective cohort study conducted on acute TBI patients admitted to I.C.U at EL-HELAL trauma centre and KASR AL AINI university hospital, Egypt during the period from august 2014 to April 2015. All patients were assessed with APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA score-based models and reference model (age and GCS) In addition; all patients were followed-up for 6 months from the day of admission. Our patients were divided into two groups survivors and non-survivors