Journal article

Cause and Timing of Death and Subgroup Differential Effects of Erythropoietin in the EPO-TBI Study

MB Skrifvars, C French, M Bailey, J Presneill, A Nichol, L Little, J Durantea, O Huet, S Haddad, Y Arabi, C McArthur, DJ Cooper, R Bellomo

Journal of Neurotrauma | MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC | Published : 2018

Abstract

The EPO-TBI study randomized 606 patients with moderate or severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) to be treated with weekly epoetin alfa (EPO) or placebo. Six month mortality was lower in EPO treated patients in an analysis adjusting for TBI severity. Knowledge of possible differential effects by TBI injury subtype and acute neurosurgical treatment as well as timing and cause of death (COD) will facilitate the design of future interventional TBI trials. We defined COD as cerebral (brain death, cerebral death with withdrawal, or death during maximal care) and non-cerebral (death following withdrawal or during maximal care, which had a non-cerebral cause). The study included 305 patients treated ..

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