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Table 5 Factors leading to Tracheostomy during stay on Intensive Care Unit

From: Neurocritical care complications and interventions influence the outcome in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Risk factors

Odds ratio

95 % Confidence interval

p

Sex

1.33

0.49–3.60

0.58

Age

0.99

0.96–1.03

0.74

WFNS Grade

1.82

1.02–3.23

0.043

Pneumonia

10.02

3.19–31.41

< 0.0001

Sepsis

6.09

1.18–31.55

0.031

Hydrocephalus

0.74

0.23–2.45

0.63

Shunt

12.80

2.90–56.47

0.00076

Diabetes insipidus

2.54

0.64–10.16

0.19

Decompressive craniectomy

8.28

2.57–26.71

0.00041

  1. Binary logistic regression was performed as a multivariate analysis with dichotomized status of tracheotomia (0 = “no tracheostomy”; 1 = “tracheostomy”) as the dependent variable and sex, age, WFNS grade, pneumonia, hydrocephalus, shunt, sepsis, diabetes insipidus and decompressive craniectomy as independent variables (covariates)
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BMC Neurology

ISSN: 1471-2377

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