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Table 5 Baseline complications occurrence for adult traumatic brain injury patients with intracranial hematomas

From: Burden, risk factors, neurosurgical evacuation outcomes, and predictors of mortality among traumatic brain injury patients with expansive intracranial hematomas in Uganda: a mixed methods study design

Complications

No EIH

EIH

Total

P-Value

n (%)

132 (40.7)

192 (59.3)

324 (100.0)

No

53 (40.2)

83 (43.2)

136 (42.0)

 

Yes

79 (59.8)

109 (56.8)

188 (58.0)

0.581

Infection (Y), n (%)

8 (6.1)

8 (4.2)

16 (4.9)

0.439

Pneumonia (infection of the lungs) (Y), n (%)

8 (6.1)

3 (1.6)

11 (3.4)

0.028

Early PTS (Y), n (%)

22 (16.7)

29 (15.1)

51 (15.7)

0.704

Brain swelling (Y), n (%)

11 (8.3)

27 (14.1)

38 (11.7)

0.115

Leakage of cerebrospinal fluid) (Y), n (%)

4 (3.0)

5 (2.6)

9 (2.8)

0.816

Subdural hygroma

3 (2.3)

1 (0.5)

4 (1.2)

0.161

Nutrition deficit

5 (3.8)

8 (4.2)

13 (4.0)

0.864

Coma (Y), n (%)

13 (9.8)

25 (13.0)

38 (11.7)

0.383

Death

16 (12.1)

17 (8.9)

33 (10.2)

 

Alive

116 (87.9)

175 (91.1)

282 (88.4)

0.073