Temperature variability in the day-night cycle is associated with further intracranial pressure during therapeutic hypothermia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To assess whether circadian patterns of temperature correlate with further values of intracranial pressure (ICP) in severe brain injury treated with hypothermia.

Methods

We retrospectively analyzed temperature values in subarachnoid hemorrhage patients treated with hypothermia by endovascular cooling. The circadian patterns of temperature were correlated with the mean ICP across the following day (ICP₂₄).

Results

We analyzed data from 17 days of monitoring of three subarachnoid hemorrhage patients that underwent aneurysm coiling, sedation and hypothermia due to refractory intracranial hypertension and/or cerebral vasospasm. ICP₂₄ ranged from 11.5 ± 3.1 to 24.2 ± 6.2 mmHg. The ratio between the coefficient of variation of temperature du

SUBMITTER: Nogueira AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5543542 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature