Non-neurological organ dysfunction in neurocritical care.

Purpose: To determine the incidence of non-neurological organ dysfunction in patients with severe neurological injury.

Materials And Methods: Modified daily SOFA (mSOFA) scores were retrospectively calculated for 55 consecutive patients with severe head injury or subarachnoid hemorrhage. mSOFA was defined as the sum of the 5 non-neurological component SOFA scores, maximum mSOFA as the sum of the most abnormal non-neurological SOFA component scores and delta mSOFA as the difference between maximum mSOFA and admission mSOFA.