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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to further elaborate the role of both arterial blood pressure and end-tidal carbon dioxide concentration on measured venous pressures.
For purposes of validation, this study compares intracranial pressure measurements obtained with a novel self-calibrating, non-invasive, intracranial pressure measuring (ICP) device, with the values obtained from (a) patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) whose meet standard clinical indications for ICP measurement and whose ICP is measured using gold-standard implanted intracranial instrumentation and in (b) ambulatory subjects who meet clinical indications for lumbar puncture.
The investigators aim to demonstrate that use of transpulmonary pressure to guide PEEP management is safe in patients with possible elevations of intracranial pressure.
This study aims to investigate the inner mechanism during different dehydration therapies such as mannitol injection and hypertonic saline. The investigators used a self-made near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) instrument to monitor the physiological changes noninvasively including oxyhemoglobin ([HbO2]), deoxy-hemoglobin ([Hb]), the derived change in blood volume ([tHb]) and water concentration on the forehead of brain edema patients.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the change of the optic nerve sheath diameter after deflation of pneumatic tourniquet.
Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of mortality and severe disability in the pediatric population. The prognosis of these patients depends on the severity of the initial lesions but also on the effectiveness of the therapies used to prevent or at least limit secondary lesions mainly intracranial hypertension (HTIC). The medical therapeutic strategy for the control of HTIC in children with TBI is well codified: starting with hyperosmolar therapy, then hyperventilation and ultimately the use of barbiturates to deepen sedation. However, these therapies are not devoid of adverse effects (hypernatremia, cerebral hypoxemia, systemic vasodilation) and, for some, their efficacy is diminished over time. When these treatments are insufficient to lower intracranial pressure (ICP), decompressive craniectomy is proposed. Decompressive craniectomy is used in a well-coded manner in malignant ischemic stroke in adults. In TBI, to date, there are two randomized studies in adults and one in children but with a small number of patients, evaluating the benefit of decompressive craniectomy. None of them showed significantly superiority of the surgery compared to the maximal medication treatment on the functional prognosis in the medium term. However, these studies have many biases, including a significant cross-over from the conservative treatment group to the surgery arm. Nevertheless, the pediatric literature on the subject seems to yield better results on neurological prognosis in the long term. There are guidelines on the medical management of childhood TBI published by the National Institute of Health in 2012, which emphasize the need for controlled and randomized studies to define the place of decompressive craniectomy in children. That is why the investigators are proposing this national multicentre study.
The primary goal is to quantify cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) volume, diffusion characteristics and mechanical properties of brain tissue at two states of arousal.
The aim of this study is to investigate any direct correlation between increased intrathoracic pressure, intraabdominal pressure and intracranial pressure, following a controlled elevation in intraabdominal pressure and intrathoracic pressure (PEEP). The second end-point is to investigate any correlation between elevated intracranial pressure and vasopressin release, urine output and urine and serum osmolality by measuring their values at different time-points.
Robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALRP) is becoming a popular procedure due to its unique advantages. Despite these advantages, pneumoperitoneum and steep trendelenburg position are associated with hemodynamic instability and elevated intracranial pressures (ICP). Ultrasonographic measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) is an indirect but also a generally accepted reliable and noninvasive measurement of elevated ICP. However, optimal cut-off values are highly inconsistent due to multiple factors (gender, height, weight). To eliminate the effects of these factors on the results; a ratio should be established in patients known to have elevated ICPs. In a recent study ONSD/ eyeball transverse diameter(ETD) in healthy volunteers in a specific population was established. 60 patients without any history of ICP undergoing RALRP will be enrolled to the study. Ultrasonographic measurement of ONSD and ETD will be performed 10 minutes after induction of general anesthesia, 10 minutes after CO2 pneumoperitoneum with trendelenburg positioning and measurements will be repeated hourly and at last after returning to supine position without CO2 pneumoperitoneum at the end of the procedure. Hemodynamic variables and BIS values on this specific times will be recorded and an arterial sample will be obtained.
Since decades, neurosurgeons and neurooncologists assumed that the mass effect of brain tumors with peritumoral edema or intratumoral hemorrhage might lead to increased ICP. Therefore, decisions on surgical procedures and medical treatments were made based on clinical and radiological findings suggesting increased ICP. But in fact, no measurement has ever confirmed increased ICP in brain tumor patients. From an ethical point of view, it is not justifiable to implant an intraparenchymal ICP probe within an invasive surgical procedure in a brain tumor patient unless the patient is comatose or present with rapid impairment of the level of consciousness. Therefore, with the new medical device for non-invasive ICP measurement presented in this study protocol, we will be able to measure absolute ICP values in patients with brain tumors.