The Influence of Airway Pressure Changes on Intracranial Pressure (ICP) and the Blood Flow Velocity in the Middle Cerebral Artery (VMCA)
N.N. · AINS · 2000 · Heft 3 · S. 141 bis 145
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Zusammenfassung
Objective: Due to the exponential shape of the intracranial volume-pressure relation, simple measurement of epidural, parenchymal or intraventricular intracranial pressure (ICP) in traumatic brain injury (TBI) often fails to early recognize patients with a fulminant development of intracranial hypertension even during recently available methods of tissue PO2 and microdialysis measurements. One approach to this problem could be repetitive intracranial volume provocations to evaluate a trend of the intracranial elastance. Several previously published methods use invasive volume challenge through access to the cere…