Abstract
Surgery in high grade gliomas (HGG) is often related to peri-operative complications, that may require neurocritical intensive care unit (NICU) admittance. Actually there is no consensus whether there is real need for NICU for this patients; often the possibility is related to surgeon preferences. In literature there are still little data on clinical parameters associated with long-term outcome after neurocritical care. We retrospectively analyzed 175 patients, that underwent surgical resection for HGG in our division; 15 of which needed NICU admittance after surgery. We compare this group with a homogeneous control group of 15 patients that did not need NICU after surgery. Statistical analysis (p value set at 0.05) did not show any statistical difference between the two groups and we suggest that NICU should not always be used after craniotomy for supratentorial HGG.
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