Injury related variables and dysautonomic features at admission to rehabilitation
| Subject No | Time to rehab admission (days) | Initial GCS | CT findings | Dysautonomic features | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR | RR | BP | Temp | Sweat | Post | ||||
| #, fracture; BOS, base of skull; c/w DAI, consistent with diffuse axonal injury; GCS, Glasgow Coma Score; L, left; R, right; SDH, subdural haematoma. | |||||||||
| +/−, presence or absence of tachycardia (HR), tachypnoea (RR), hypertension (BP), unexplained fever (Temp), increased sweating (Sweat) or posturing (Post). | |||||||||
| 1 | 89 | 4 | R frontal lobe laceration, R SDH with midline shift, L temporal contusions, cerebral oedema, #BOS | – | – | – | + | + | + |
| 2 | 66 | 3 | Multiple petechial haemorrhages c/w DAI, R SDH with midline shift, pontine contusion, #L orbital floor | – | – | – | + | + | + |
| 3 | 38 | 5 | L SDH with midline shift, widespread petechial haemorrhages c/w DAI | + | + | ? | + | ? | + |
| 4 | 42 | 4 | L parietal contusions, R sided brainstem contusions, #BOS | + | + | ? | + | + | + |
| 5 | 29 | 3 | L frontotemporal contusion with midline shift, L midbrain contusion, DAI, traumatic SDH | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| 6 | 20 | 3 | R frontoparietal SDH with midline shift, DAI, cerebral oedema | + | + | + | – | + | + |