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Peruvian Journal of Neurosurgery

Intracraneal Pressure Monitoring

Aurelio Asto A. MD, Jerson Flores C. MD
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ABSTRACT

 

Continuous monitoring of intracranial pressure (ICP) is a therapeutic guide for the proper management of Brain injured patients at risk of intracranial hypertension. Intracranial hypertension is associated with high morbidity and mortality in brain injury patients of different etiologies, hence the importance of timely recognize and treat this entity. For this reason the need for monitoring, analysis and interpretation of intracranial pathophysiological is an important part of multimodal neuromonitoring, which together with clinical and CT evaluation. The integration of neuromonitoring is fundamental and has a great impact on the outcome of brain injury patients and is essential for proper therapeutic management.

     Keywords: Intracranial Pressure, Intracranial hypertension, Physiologic monitoring