Intracranial Pressure Monitoring in Head Injury

doi:10.1017/9781108355247.013

Chapter 11 - Intracranial Pressure Monitoring in Head Injury

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2020

Rikin A. Trivedi and

Edited by

Maggie Whyte and

Peter C. Whitfield: Affiliation:
Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
Jessie Welbourne: Affiliation:
University Hospitals, Plymouth
Elfyn Thomas: Affiliation:
Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
Fiona Summers: Affiliation:
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Maggie Whyte: Affiliation:
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Peter J. Hutchinson: Affiliation:
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge

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Intracranial pressure (ICP) is well recognised as a critical parameter to both measure and influence in the management of the head injured patient. Since Lundberg’s seminal studies, ICP has arguably become the major focus of monitoring in head injury, as well as a number of other neurosurgical scenarios.1 Mean ICP and the features that make up the ICP waveform provide insight into the state of elastance and compliance of the injured brain, impending trends and events related to changes in intracranial pathophysiology, and also end-prognosis in traumatic brain injury (TBI).

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Information: Traumatic Brain Injury
A Multidisciplinary Approach
, pp. 110 - 131

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108355247.013 [Opens in a new window]

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