Neurology Research International / 2012 / Article / Tab 1 / 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 patients 186 Age in years, mean ± SD 54.0 ± 14.2 Male (%) 51 (27) Hunt and Hess grade, mean ± SD 2.6 ± 1.2 Fisher grade, mean ± SD 3.1 ± 1.0 Smoker (%) 153 (65) Mean number of days febrile 2.8 ± 4.2 Number of days febrile category (%) 0 84 (45) 1-2 35 (19) 3–5 31 (17) >5 36 (19) Mean number of infections 0.97 ± 1.4 Number of infections category (%) 0 99 (53) 1 35 (19) 2 29 (16) >2 23 (12) Delayed neurological deficit (%) 76 (45) GOS, excellent/good (%) 124 (67)