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1. Retrospective analysis of the hemodynamic effects of induction of barbiturate coma in patients with refractory elevated intracranial pressure

Author

Frank Jans, Willem Boer, M. Vander Laenen, René Heylen, Jean-Bernard Gillet, C. De Deyne, and S D'Hollander

Subjects
Coma, Mean arterial pressure, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.drug_class, business.industry, musculoskeletal, neural, and ocular physiology, Retrospective cohort study, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, humanities, Surgery, body regions, Compliance (physiology), Refractory, Barbiturate, Anesthesia, Poster Presentation, medicine, In patient, Cerebral perfusion pressure, medicine.symptom, business, psychological phenomena and processes
Abstract

Standard clinical practice in patients with elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) is to keep cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) at (or above) 60 mmHg: we performed this retrospective study to analyze whether induction of barbiturate coma impedes compliance to this target CPP value. It has been repetitively shown that, although proven as an efficient therapy for refractory elevated ICP, barbiturate coma may cause a decrease in mean arterial pressure (MAP) and CPP [1].

Published
2013

2. Cerebral oximetry and brain death in the ICU: data from seven cases

Author

Willem Boer, Frank Jans, Ingrid Meex, René Heylen, C De Deyne, N Billet, and M. Vanderlaenen

Subjects
Brain dead, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Anesthesia, Emergency medicine, Angiography, Poster Presentation, medicine, Cerebral tissue, business, Cerebral oximetry, Oxygen saturation (medicine)
Abstract

Cerebral oximetry, using near-infrared spectroscopy to measure cerebral tissue oxygen saturation (SctO2), is being increasingly used in the ICU. We hypothesized that if a patient becomes brain dead in the ICU, this must be reflected in SctO2 values. This might help in the timing of invasive procedures such as angiography, sometimes necessary in the confirmation of brain death.

Published
2012

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