Risk Factors and Outcomes in Patients Treated in Neurocritical Care (EpiNIC)

Karolinska Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Traumatic Brain Injury; Meningitis; Ischemic Stroke; Acute Neurological Injury; Epilepsy; Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Aneurysmal; Acute Brain Injuries; Stroke, Acute; Intracerebral Hemorrhage; Neuro-intensive Care Unit Patients

Treatments: Other: Transport modality; Other: Observational study, participants are not assigned an intervention as part of the study.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07052656

KI: 4-1998/2022 (Other Identifier)

K2022-6426

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall purpose of this epidemiologic research project is to provide a comprehensive exploration and analysis of critical elements within the neuro-intensive care process in Sweden. All aspects of intensive care management in critically ill patients with acute brain injury will be addressed. The analyses include description of patient characteristics, intensive care data, management and treatments, various aspects of short and long-term follow-up, mortality, regional- and sex-related differences. The long-term goal is to develop neuro-intensive care and management, to minimize in-hospital insults and secondary injuries, to improve diagnostics and follow-up, in order to reduce prolonged neurologic deficits and mortality in these patients.

Enrollment: 70,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ICU admission 2010 to 2024
• Clinical diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracranial hemorrhage or ischemic brain injury, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, meningitis, encefalititis or other brain injury diagnosis.

Trial design

70,000 participants in 1 patient group

Neuro-intensive care patients

Treatment:

Other: Observational study, participants are not assigned an intervention as part of the study.

Other: Transport modality