Neuroanesthesia & neurocritical care
Patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage treated in Swedish intensive care: A registry study
An erratum to this article was published (Acta Anaesthesiol Scand, Jan 2025 ↗)
Authors' conclusion
Patients with aSAH treated in a NICU or in an ICU in Sweden differs in characteristics.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with aneurysmal SAH registered in the Swedish Intensive care Registry, 2017–2019
- Participants
- 1,520 patients · 5 regions
- Exposure
- Neuro intensive care units (NICU) vs general intensive care unit (ICU); regions
- Outcome
- Mortality within 180 days of admission
- Follow-up
- 180 days
Methodological detailsdescriptive, national registry
- Descriptive
- National registry
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Mortality within 180 days of admission
30%
n = 456
Died during intensive care
17%
n = 258
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Invasive mechanical ventilation, by region
Mortality, by region
Patient characteristics
- Mean age (years)
- 60.6
- Female
- 58%
- Treated at one hospital and in one ICU
- 70%, n = 1062
- First intensive care admission at a hospital with a NICU
- 59%, n = 897
Severity at NICU admission, North region
- Lowest median GCS
- 10
- Highest SAPS3 score
- 60
Invasive mechanical ventilation, by region
- Differed significantly between regions
Mortality, by region
- Differed significantly between regions
Age, sex and LOS by region
- No differences between regions
Original publication
Patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage treated in Swedish intensive care: A registry study. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. Published 29 May 2024. doi:10.
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