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Actual evidence for neuromonitoring-guided intensive care following severe traumatic brain injury

Stover, J F (2011). Actual evidence for neuromonitoring-guided intensive care following severe traumatic brain injury. Swiss Medical Weekly, 141:w13245.

Abstract

Therapeutic interventions following severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) are substantially influenced by complex and interwoven pathophysiological cascades involving both, local and systemic alterations. Our main duty is to prevent secondary progression of the primary damage. This, in turn, obliges us to actively search and identify secondary insults related, for example, to hypoxia, hypotension, uncontrolled hyperventilation, anaemia, and hypoglycaemia. During pharmacological coma we must rely on specific cerebral monitoring which is indispensable in unmasking otherwise occult changes. In addition, extended neuromonitoring (SjvO2, ptiO2, microdialysis, transcranial Doppler sonography, electrophysiological studies, direct brain perfusion measurement) can be used to define individual pathological ICP levels which, in turn, will support our decision making. Extended neuromonitoring expands the limited knowledge derived from ICP and CPP values, thereby allowing us to adequately adapt the type, extent and speed of different therapeutic interventions. A more individualised and flexible treatment concept depends on extended neuromonitoring. The present review addresses current evidence in favour of extended neuromonitoring used to guide treatment options aimed at improving intensive care treatment of patients with severe TBI. With increasing experience gained by the use of extended neuromonitoring in clinical routine we may expect that the evidence obtained within the individual patient will translate to convincing evidence on a larger scale for the entire study population.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:04 Faculty of Medicine > University Hospital Zurich > Division of Surgical Research
04 Faculty of Medicine > University Hospital Zurich > Institute of Intensive Care Medicine
Dewey Decimal Classification:610 Medicine & health
Scopus Subject Areas:Health Sciences > General Medicine
Language:English
Date:July 2011
Deposited On:27 Feb 2012 20:12
Last Modified:20 Oct 2024 03:38
Publisher:SMW supporting association
ISSN:1424-3997
OA Status:Gold
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2011.13245
PubMed ID:21780008
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