Quantitative Evaluation of the Severity of Acute Illness in Adult Patients with Tick-Borne Encephalitis

Table 1

Questionnaire for the evaluation of the severity of acute illness in patients with tick-borne encephalitis.

Present symptom/sign	Duration (days)	Points^a
Headache	1–5	1
	>5	2
Fever^b	1–3	1
	4–7	2
	>7	3
Vomiting	1–3	1
	>3	2
Meningeal signs	1–5	1
	>5	2
Tremor	/	7
Pareses
1-2 extremities	/	7
>2 extremities and/or trunk	/	9
Urine retention	/	5
Cognitive function disturbance	/	5
Conscious disturbance
Somnolence	/	3
Stupor/coma	/	7
Therapy for elevated intracranial pressure^c	1–5 doses	3
	>5 doses	5

/ Not applicable.
aThe absence of an individual symptom/sign was given zero points.
b>37.5°C.
c250 mL 20% manitol followed by 20 mg furosemide parenterally (up to two times daily).