Recent advances in traumatic brain injury

A Khellaf, DZ Khan, A Helmy - Journal of neurology, 2019 - Springer
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the most common cause of death and disability in those aged
under 40 years in the UK. Higher rates of morbidity and mortality are seen in low-income …

Information technology in critical care: review of monitoring and data acquisition systems for patient care and research

MA De Georgia, F Kaffashi, FJ Jacono… - The Scientific World …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
There is a broad consensus that 21st century health care will require intensive use of
information technology to acquire and analyze data and then manage and disseminate …

Patient-specific thresholds of intracranial pressure in severe traumatic brain injury

C Lazaridis, SM DeSantis, P Smielewski… - Journal of …, 2014 - thejns.org
Object Based on continuous monitoring of the pressure reactivity index (PRx), the authors
defined individualized intracranial pressure (ICP) thresholds by graphing the relationship …

Intracranial pressure and intracranial elastance monitoring in neurocritical care

T Heldt, T Zoerle, D Teichmann… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Patients with acute brain injuries tend to be physiologically unstable and at risk of rapid and
potentially life-threatening decompensation due to shifts in intracranial compartment …

Focally administered succinate improves cerebral metabolism in traumatic brain injury patients with mitochondrial dysfunction

A Khellaf, NM Garcia, T Tajsic, A Alam… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Following traumatic brain injury (TBI), raised cerebral lactate/pyruvate ratio (LPR) reflects
impaired energy metabolism. Raised LPR correlates with poor outcome and mortality …

Insights into the natural history of spontaneous intracranial hypotension from infusion testing

L Häni, C Fung, CM Jesse, CT Ulrich, T Miesbach… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To assess the pathophysiologic changes in patients with spontaneous intracranial
hypotension (SIH) based on measures of CSF dynamics, and on the duration of symptoms …

Effect of artifacts upon the pressure reactivity index

M Rozanek, J Skola, L Horakova, V Trukhan - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The pressure reactivity index (PRx) is a parameter for the assessment of cerebrovascular
autoregulation, but its calculation is affected by artifacts in the source biosignals …

Perfusion‐dependent cerebral autoregulation impairment in hemispheric stroke

N Hecht, M Schrammel, K Neumann… - Annals of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Loss of cerebral autoregulation (CA) plays a key role in secondary neurologic
injury. However, the regional distribution of CA impairment after acute cerebral injury …

The correlation between pulsatile intracranial pressure and indices of intracranial pressure-volume reserve capacity: results from ventricular infusion testing

PK Eide - Journal of neurosurgery, 2016 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine how pulsatile and static intracranial
pressure (ICP) scores correlate with indices of intracranial pressure-volume reserve …

Intracranial pressure: why we monitor it, how to monitor it, what to do with the number and what's the future?

A Lavinio, DK Menon - Current Opinion in Anesthesiology, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Current recommendations for the management of traumatic brain injury indicate ICP
monitoring in patients who remain comatose after resuscitation if the admission computed …