A Continuous Correlation Between Intracranial Pressure and Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity Reflects Cerebral Autoregulation Impairment During Intracranial Pressure Plateau Waves

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 514-525

  Lewis, Philip M ^a,b   Smielewski, Peter ^c   Rosenfeld, Jeffrey V ^a,b   Pickard, John D ^c   Czosnyka, Marek ^c  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral autoregulation; Cerebral blood volume; Cerebral perfusion pressure; Intracranial pressure; Near infrared spectroscopy; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN INJURY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939874115     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-014-9994-7     Document Type: Article

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