Abstract

Aim: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the common emergencies with a high mortality rate. It is difficult to determine the mortality and prognosis of TBI in the intensive care unit (ICU). The aim of this study is to assess the prognostic relationship of optic nerve sheath diameters (ONSD) as seen on computerized tomography (CT) images as well as serum procalcitonin (PCT) levels to mortality and Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) scores of patients with traumatic brain injury in the ICU.

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