Dexamethasone (+) Normothermia group (N=11) Hypothermia group (N=17) p value Age 39±25 36±24 0.61 BW 59±21 61±18 0.7 Gender (F/M) 3/8 4/13 0.57 GCS 5.7±1 5.9±2 0.65 ST(+/-) 5/6 9/8 0.51 Pupil abn. (+/-) 4/7 11/6 0.14 Pneumonia Dev. (+/-) 3/8 4/13 Mean±SD 0.82 Dexamethasone (-) Normothermia group (N=5) Hypothermia group (N=6) p value Age 53±35 41±22 0.43 BW 50±29 65±22 0.5 Gender (F/M) 4/1 3/3 0.2 GCS 6.8±1.1 6±1.8 0.46 ST(+/-) 1/4 4/2 0.1 Pupil abn. (+/-) 5/0 4/2 0.1 Pneumonia Dev. (+/-) 1/4 5/1 Mean±SD 0.03*

Table 4: Comparisons in Demographic Data and Occurrence Rate of Pneumonia between Normothermic and Hypothermic groups with or without Dexamethasone Treatment. Note that although there was no difference in the rate of pneumonia between hypothermic and normothermic groups with steroid treatment, the occurrence rate of pneumonia in hypothermic group without D was higher than that in normothermic group not being given D. Abbreviations are referred to those in Table1.