Non-invasive intracranial pressure measurement methods
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 104 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5090-5892-9
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Increased intracranial pressure (ICP) is one of the major causes of secondary brain ischemia that accompanies a variety of pathological conditions, most notably, traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, and intracranial hemorrhages. Increased intracranial pressure can cause such complications as VIIP, death, permanent neurological problems, reversible neurological problems, seizures, stroke. However, aside from a few Level I trauma centers, ICP monitoring is rarely a part of the clinical management of patients with these conditions because of the invasiveness of the standard monitoring methods (which require insertion of a catheter into the cranium), additional risks they present for patients, high costs associated with the procedure, and the limited access to trained personnel, i.e., a neurosurgeon. Alternative methods have therefore been sought with which ICP can be measured noninvasively. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию...
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