Reliability of the blood flow velocity pulsatility index for assessment of intracranial and cerebral perfusion pressures in head-injured patients

Neurosurgery

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 853-861

  Zweifel, Christian ^a,b   Czosnyka, Marek ^a   Carrera, Emmanuel ^a   De Riva, Nicolas ^a   Pickard, John D ^a   Smielewski, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebral perfusion pressure; Critical care; Diagnostic value; Head injury; Intracranial pressure; Pulsatility index

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL PERFUSION PRESSURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSATILE FLOW; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84866932688     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182675b42     Document Type: Article

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