Search Tag: intracranial pressure
2025 04 Feb
Intracranial hypertension after traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to secondary brain damage, high mortality, and poor outcomes. Invasive intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring using intraparenchymal or intraventricular systems is the gold standard for guiding TBI treatment. The Seattle International Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Consensus Conference...Read more
2025 14 Jan
Moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) often results in impaired cerebral autoregulation (CA), making patients vulnerable to both ischaemia and hyperaemia. The capacity for CA varies between patients and can change over time, complicating the determination of an optimal cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) target. The pressure reactivity index...Read more
2024 24 Jul
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have identified a potential alternative, less-invasive method for measuring intracranial pressure (ICP) in patients. The research is published in Computers in Biology and Medicine. ICP can abnormally increase due to conditions such as acute brain injury, stroke, or cerebrospinal fluid flow obstruction,...Read more
2020 11 Jan
One of the most frequent causes of death and disability after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is high intracranial pressure (ICP). ICP is generally treated with usual techniques such as normothermia, sedation, etc. and first-line therapeutic strategies such as moderate hypocapnia, mannitol etc. However, in patients where these measures do not work,...Read more
2018 16 Mar
Intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring is the cornerstone for treatment and management of patients, especially following traumatic brain injury (TBI) but also other clinical conditions such as non-traumatic bleeds, hydrocephalus, space-occupying lesions and cerebral oedema. The key target to monitor and treat ICP is to optimise the cerebral perfusion...Read more
2017 03 Jan
Results of a meta-analysis published in PLoS ONE indicate that intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring decreased the mortality rate of patients with severe traumatic brain injury. Specifically, the mortality of ICP monitored group (hospitalised after 2007) was improved, as well as two-week and six-month mortality rates, according to researchers. Previous...Read more