Clinical Study

Influence of Fever and Hospital-Acquired Infection on the Incidence of Delayed Neurological Deficit and Poor Outcome after Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Table 1

Baseline characteristics and outcome variables.

Number of patients186
Age in years, mean ± SD54.0 ± 14.2
Male (%)51 (27)
Hunt and Hess grade, mean ± SD2.6 ± 1.2
Fisher grade, mean ± SD3.1 ± 1.0
Smoker (%)153 (65)
Mean number of days febrile2.8 ± 4.2
Number of days febrile category (%)
 084 (45)
 1-235 (19)
 3–531 (17)
 >536 (19)
Mean number of infections0.97 ± 1.4
Number of infections category (%)
 099 (53)
 135 (19)
 229 (16)
 >223 (12)
Delayed neurological deficit (%)76 (45)
GOS, excellent/good (%)124 (67)