Intracranial Pressure Monitoring in Sever Traumatic Brain Injury Single Center Experience

Launched by ASSIUT UNIVERSITY · Oct 24, 2018

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ClinConnect Summary

ICP \>15 mmHg is considered to be elevated, and this is considered an important cause of secondary injury leading to irreversible brain injury and death. ICP monitoring is used in a number of conditions; traumatic brain injury, intracerebral haemorrhage, subarachnoid haemorrhage, hydrocephalus, malignant infarction, cerebral oedema, CNS infections, hepatic encephalopathy, to name a few, and in all of these conditions ICP monitoring in the light of other parameters can influence management for better outcomes.

There are 4 ways to monitor intracranial pressure:

1. An intra-parenchymal metho...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Age \>18
• • 2. GCS \< 8
• • 3. patient with severe brain insult ( Marshall class II to IV)
• • 4. patients admitted within 24 hours from the trauma time
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Patients admitted for surgery (ex; surgical EDH) .
• • 2. patient diagnosed as brain death