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Acute traumatic brain injury clinical features can help predict mortality Level of evidence 1a Expiry Date November 2003 Acute traumatic brain injury raised intracranial pressure increases the risk of dying Level of evidence 1b Expiry Date November 2003 Cardiac arrest few patients in a coma post-arrest live longer than a month Level of evidence 4 Expiry Date October 2003 Coma nontraumatic: most patients died Level of evidence 4 Expiry Date October 2003 Coma anoxic-ischemic: most patients died or remained in a vegetative state Level of evidence 2a Expiry Date October 2003 Hypoglycaemia History of coma was not correlated with neurophysiological damage Level of evidence 3b Expiry Date August 2003