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<Articles JournalTitle="Frontiers in Emergency Medicine">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Frontiers in Emergency Medicine</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2717-3593</Issn>
      <Volume>5</Volume>
      <Issue>4</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2021</Year>
        <Month>03</Month>
        <Day>28</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Independent Predictors of One-Month Mortality in Patients with Intracranial Hemorrhage; a Cohort Study</title>
    <FirstPage>e39</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>e39</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Hamid</FirstName>
        <LastName>Kariman</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Emergency Department, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Behnam</FirstName>
        <LastName>Babadi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Emergency Department, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Masomeh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Raofi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Radiology, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Saeed</FirstName>
        <LastName>Safari</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Emergency Medicine, Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2021</Year>
        <Month>03</Month>
        <Day>28</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2021</Year>
        <Month>03</Month>
        <Day>28</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Introduction: Predicting the outcome is one of the most frequent and important issues when approaching patients with intracranial hemorrhage (ICH).&#xA0;Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the correlation of SUSPEKT score variables plus electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities with one-month mortality of patients with ICH presenting to emergency department (ED).&#xA0;Methods: In this cohort study, adult patients presenting to the EDs of three educational hospitals, during one year, were followed and their one-month mortality rate as well as independent predictors of outcome among the variables of SUSPEKT score plus electrocardiography findings were evaluated.&#xA0;Results: One hundred seventy-seven patients with the mean age of 63.07&#xB1;14.89 years were studied (59.9%). The most common locations of intra-parenchymal hemorrhage were basal ganglia (53.7%) and cortex (36.2%). Ninety-two (52.0%) of cases had at least one ECG abnormality. The most frequent ECG abnormalities were ST segment depression (20.3%), T wave inversion (16.4%), and left ventricular hypertrophy (14.7%). Thirty (16.9%) cases died during the 30-day follow-up. Survived and non-survived cases were significantly different regarding the location of intra-parenchymal hemorrhage (p &lt; 0.0001), presence of intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) (p = 0.007), ST segment elevation (p &lt; 0.0001), bradycardia (p &lt; 0.0001), tachycardia (p &lt; 0.0001), arterial fibrillation (p &lt; 0.0001), blood sugar (p = 0.044), and serum level of potassium (p = 0.022).&#xA0;Conclusions: The location of hemorrhage (basal ganglia), higher blood sugar, and presence of ECG abnormalities (ST segment elevation, tachycardia, bradycardia, atrial fibrillation) were among the independent predictors of one-month mortality of ICH patients in this study.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://fem.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fem/article/view/716</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://fem.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fem/article/download/716/350</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
