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Accuracy of acute hyperglycemia as a biomarker of severe brain damage in children with traumatic brain injury.

José Roberto Tude MeloChiara Maria de Brito TischerFernanda Paiva Augusto RodriguesJúlia Calviello GiordanoLarissa Ferreira Gomes de OliveiraStephannie Monaco BodraJean Gonçalves DE OliveiraJosé Carlos Esteves Veiga
Published in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2024)
Victims with GCS ≤ 8 are 16 times more likely to develop acute hyperglycemia after TBI when compared to those with GCS > 8. Blood glucose is a biomarker with an accuracy of 84% to predict severe brain injury, considering the cutoff point of 200 mg/dL or 11.1 mmol/L.
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