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This study evaluated whether integrating systemic inflammatory markers\u2014white blood cell count (WBC), neutrophil count, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and C-reactive protein (CRP)\u2014with the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and Injury Severity Score (ISS) improves the prediction of neurosurgical intervention in adult tSAH patients, compared with clinical scores alone. Methods: This single-center retrospective cohort study included 69 adult patients (age \u2265 18 years) with computed tomography (CT)-confirmed tSAH treated between January and December 2023. Patients younger than 18 years were excluded a priori given age-specific reference ranges for WBC and lymphocyte count. Neurosurgical intervention was defined as any cranial or therapeutic intracranial vascular procedure directly addressing the intracranial pathology; patients whose only procedure was unrelated to the intracranial injury were classified as non-surgical. Patients were stratified into surgery (n = 12) and no-surgery (n = 57) groups. Diagnostic accuracy was assessed by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis with DeLong pairwise comparisons; logistic regression estimated odds ratios (ORs). Results: WBC (area under the curve [AUC] = 0.850), GCS (AUC = 0.831), and ISS (AUC = 0.827) were the strongest individual predictors; neutrophil count was also significant (AUC = 0.807), while NLR and CRP were not discriminatory. The combined WBC + GCS model achieved an AUC = 0.904 (sensitivity 75.0%, specificity 93.0%), without statistically significant superiority over either predictor alone (DeLong p = 0.571 and p = 0.455, respectively). In multivariable analysis, both WBC (OR = 3.951, p = 0.006) and GCS (OR = 0.331, p = 0.002) were independent predictors of neurosurgical intervention. A sensitivity analysis excluding the single endovascular-intervention case (n = 68) yielded materially unchanged results. Conclusions: WBC and GCS were independently associated with neurosurgical intervention in this exploratory adult tSAH cohort. The combined model showed numerically higher discrimination than either predictor alone, although this incremental difference was not statistically significant. 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