PMC:4628351 / 3636-5561 JSONTXT

{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/4628351","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"4628351","source_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/4628351","text":"We will now outline the reasons why we concluded that mild therapeutic hypothermia (MTH) may be unnecessary in patients with a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) motor response score of 5 or higher, although MTH was an independent predictive factor for good neurological outcome, and the reason that we combined patients with GCS motor response score of 5 and 6. Firstly, we performed chi-squared automatic interaction detection (CHAID) analysis with GCS motor response score and MTH as independent variables and good recovery at 30 days after admission as the dependent variable. The tree created after applying CHAID is shown in Fig. 1. The terminal branches of the tree represent CHAID-derived homogeneous categories (terminal nodes). We obtained five terminal nodes. Patients classified with a GCS motor response score of 5 or higher had the highest percentage of good recovery. Secondly, the percentage of patients with a good recovery in the GCS M5 and M6 groups was around 100 %, and for the patients with a bad recovery in the GCS M5 and M6 groups, it was difficult to believe that implementing MTH would have improved the CPC at 30 days after hospital admission.\nFig. 1 Chi-squared automatic interaction detection classification tree for good recovery at 30 days after hospital admission. GCS M1: patients classified with a GCS motor response score of 1. GCS M2–4: patients classified with a GCS motor response score from 2 to 4. GCS M5–6: patients classified with a GCS motor response score of 5 or higher. GCS M2–4 and MTH+: patients classified with a GCS motor response score from 2 to 4 and treated with MTH. GCS M2–4 and MTH−: patients classified with a GCS motor response score from 2 to 4 and treated without MTH. GCS M2 and MTH−: patients classified with a GCS motor response score of 1 and treated without MTH. GCS M3–4 and MTH−: patients classified with a GCS motor response score from 3 to 4 and treated without MTH","divisions":[{"label":"label","span":{"begin":1162,"end":1168}}],"tracks":[]}