Continuous Multimodality Monitoring in Children after Traumatic Brain Injury-Preliminary Experience.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Multimodality monitoring is regularly employed in adult traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients where it provides physiologic and therapeutic insight into this heterogeneous condition. Pediatric studies are less frequent.

Methods

An analysis of data collected prospectively from 12 pediatric TBI patients admitted to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) between August 2012 and December 2014 was performed. Patients' intracranial pressure (ICP), mean arterial pressure (MAP), and cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) were monitored continuously using brain monitoring software ICM+®,) Pressure reactivity index (PRx) and 'Optimal CPP' (CPPopt) were calculated. Patient outcome was dichotomized into survivors and non-survivors.

Results

At 6 month

SUBMITTER: Young AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4792535 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature