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Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Table 1 Frequency of main diagnoses of patients with external drainage of cerebrospinal fluid included in this study

From: Point-of-care detection of lactate in cerebrospinal fluid

Main diagnosis

N (female)

age

All diagnoses

62 (23)

59.5 ± 12.3

Subarachnoid hemorrhage

30 (15)

56.6 ± 12.6

Intracranial bleeding

15 (5)

63.8 ± 15.5

Traumatic brain injury

8 (0)

66.9 ± 11.5

Others

9 (3)

54.3 ± 16.1

  1. Other diagnoses were hydrocephalus, subdural bleeding, epidural bleeding, abscess, cerebrospinal fluid fistula, cerebral infarction
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