Intracranial pressure: Why we monitor it, how to monitor it, what to do with the number and what's the future?

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-123

  Lavinio, Andrea ^a,b   Menon, David K ^a  

^a CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intracranial pressure; monitoring; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CATHETER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL RECORD; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESUSCITATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN INJURIES; CATHETERIZATION; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CRANIOTOMY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC;

EID: 79952984167     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32834458c5     Document Type: Article

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