Acute spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage and traumatic brain injury are the most common causes of critical illness in the ICU and have high early mortality

Table 3 Incidence of death due to critical illness during the first 7 days in the ICU

Charateristics	Number of cases in ICU/2 years	Death during the first 7 days in the ICU/2 years	Percentage (%)	Mortality during the first 7 days/per100000 population members per year
Overall	1645	489	29.7	20.2
Sex
Male	1015	313	30.8§	12.9
Female	630	176	27.9§	7.3
Age
> 65 years	701	243	34.7△	10.0
15 to 65 years	994	246	24.7△	1.0
Types of critical illness
SICH	427	180	42.2	7.4
TBI	276	101	36.6	4.2
Heart failure/cardiovescular	140	61	43.6	2.5
Respiratory failure crisis	96	28	29.2	1.2
After surgery or intervention	89	10	11.2	0.4
GI bleedingwith shock	74	22	29.7	0.9
Cerebral infarction	120	21	17.5	0.9
Sepsis / septic shock	48	21	43.8	0.9
Pesticides/ drug poisoning	73	11	15.1	0.5
Coma of unknown origin	35	9	25.7	0.4
Trauma	121	8	6.6	0.3
Any cancer	32	7	21.9	0.3
SAH	30	7	23.3	0.3
Metabolic dysfunction	61	2	3.3	0.1
Status epilepticus	16	1	6.2	0.04
Other	7	0	0	0.0

§p < 0.005; △p < 0.0001
ICU intensive care unit, SICH spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, TBI traumatic brain injury

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