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Sharma R, Tsikvadze M, Peel J, Howard L, Kapoor N, Freeman WD. Multimodal monitoring: practical recommendations (dos and don'ts) in challenging situations and uncertainty. Front Neurol 2023; 14:1135406. [PMID: 37206910 PMCID: PMC10188941 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1135406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 05/21/2023] Open
Abstract
With the advancements in modern medicine, new methods are being developed to monitor patients in the intensive care unit. Different modalities evaluate different aspects of the patient's physiology and clinical status. The complexity of these modalities often restricts their use to the realm of clinical research, thereby limiting their use in the real world. Understanding their salient features and their limitations can aid physicians in interpreting the concomitant information provided by multiple modalities to make informed decisions that may affect clinical care and outcomes. Here, we present a review of the commonly used methods in the neurological intensive care unit with practical recommendations for their use.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rohan Sharma
- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Jacksonville, FL, United States
- *Correspondence: Rohan Sharma
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Jacksonville, FL, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Jacksonville, FL, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Jacksonville, FL, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Baptist Medical Center, Jacksonville, FL, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Jacksonville, FL, United States
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Stetter C, Weidner F, Lilla N, Weiland J, Kunze E, Ernestus RI, Muellenbach RM, Westermaier T. Therapeutic hypercapnia for prevention of secondary ischemia after severe subarachnoid hemorrhage: physiological responses to continuous hypercapnia. Sci Rep 2021; 11:11715. [PMID: 34083595 PMCID: PMC8175721 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-91007-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Temporary hypercapnia has been shown to increase cerebral blood flow (CBF) and might be used as a therapeutical tool in patients with severe subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). It was the aim of this study was to investigate the optimum duration of hypercapnia. This point is assumed to be the time at which buffer systems become active, cause an adaptation to changes of the arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2) and annihilate a possible therapeutic effect. In this prospective interventional study in a neurosurgical ICU the arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2) was increased to a target range of 55 mmHg for 120 min by modification of the respiratory minute volume (RMV) one time a day between day 4 and 14 in 12 mechanically ventilated poor-grade SAH-patients. Arterial blood gases were measured every 15 min. CBF and brain tissue oxygen saturation (StiO2) were the primary and secondary end points. Intracranial pressure (ICP) was controlled by an external ventricular drainage. Under continuous hypercapnia (PaCO2 of 53.17 ± 5.07), CBF was significantly elevated between 15 and 120 min after the start of hypercapnia. During the course of the trial intervention, cardiac output also increased significantly. To assess the direct effect of hypercapnia on brain perfusion, the increase of CBF was corrected by the parallel increase of cardiac output. The maximum direct CBF enhancing effect of hypercapnia of 32% was noted at 45 min after the start of hypercapnia. Thereafter, the CBF enhancing slowly declined. No relevant adverse effects were observed. CBF and StiO2 reproducibly increased by controlled hypercapnia in all patients. After 45 min, the curve of CBF enhancement showed an inflection point when corrected by cardiac output. It is concluded that 45 min might be the optimum duration for a therapeutic use and may provide an optimal balance between the benefits of hypercapnia and risks of a negative rebound effect after return to normal ventilation parameters. Trial registration: The study was approved by the institutional ethics committee (AZ 230/14) and registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (Trial-ID: NCT01799525). Registered 01/01/2015.
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Affiliation(s)
- Christian Stetter
- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Josef-Schneider-Strasse 11, 97080, Wuerzburg, Germany.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Josef-Schneider-Strasse 11, 97080, Wuerzburg, Germany.,Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Josef-Schneider-Strasse 11, 97080, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Magdeburg, Leipziger Strasse 44, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Josef-Schneider-Strasse 11, 97080, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Josef-Schneider-Strasse 11, 97080, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Josef-Schneider-Strasse 11, 97080, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Oberduerrbacherstrasse 6, 97080, Wuerzburg, Germany.,Department of Anesthesiology, Klinikum Kassel, Moenchebergstrasse 41-43, 34125, Kassel, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Josef-Schneider-Strasse 11, 97080, Wuerzburg, Germany
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Baker WB, Balu R, He L, Kavuri VC, Busch DR, Amendolia O, Quattrone F, Frangos S, Maloney-Wilensky E, Abramson K, Mahanna Gabrielli E, Yodh AG, Andrew Kofke W. Continuous non-invasive optical monitoring of cerebral blood flow and oxidative metabolism after acute brain injury. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2019; 39:1469-1485. [PMID: 31088234 PMCID: PMC6681541 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x19846657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Rapid detection of ischemic conditions at the bedside can improve treatment of acute brain injury. In this observational study of 11 critically ill brain-injured adults, we employed a monitoring approach that interleaves time-resolved near-infrared spectroscopy (TR-NIRS) measurements of cerebral oxygen saturation and oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) with diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) measurement of cerebral blood flow (CBF). Using this approach, we demonstrate the clinical promise of non-invasive, continuous optical monitoring of changes in CBF and cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO2). In addition, the optical CBF and CMRO2 measures were compared to invasive brain tissue oxygen tension (PbtO2), thermal diffusion flowmetry CBF, and cerebral microdialysis measures obtained concurrently. The optical CBF and CMRO2 information successfully distinguished between ischemic, hypermetabolic, and hyperemic conditions that arose spontaneously during patient care. Moreover, CBF monitoring during pressor-induced changes of mean arterial blood pressure enabled assessment of cerebral autoregulation. In total, the findings suggest that this hybrid non-invasive neurometabolic optical monitor (NNOM) can facilitate clinical detection of adverse physiological changes in brain injured patients that are otherwise difficult to measure with conventional bedside monitoring techniques.
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- Wesley B Baker
- 1 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,2 Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- 3 Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- 4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- 4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- 4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,5 Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Management and Neurology & Neurotherapeutics, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA
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- 6 Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- 6 Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- 6 Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- 4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- 4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- 1 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Sinha S, Hudgins E, Schuster J, Balu R. Unraveling the complexities of invasive multimodality neuromonitoring. Neurosurg Focus 2018; 43:E4. [PMID: 29088949 DOI: 10.3171/2017.8.focus17449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Acute brain injuries are a major cause of death and disability worldwide. Survivors of life-threatening brain injury often face a lifetime of dependent care, and novel approaches that improve outcome are sorely needed. A delayed cascade of brain damage, termed secondary injury, occurs hours to days and even weeks after the initial insult. This delayed phase of injury provides a crucial window for therapeutic interventions that could limit brain damage and improve outcome. A major barrier in the ability to prevent and treat secondary injury is that physicians are often unable to target therapies to patients' unique cerebral physiological disruptions. Invasive neuromonitoring with multiple complementary physiological monitors can provide useful information to enable this tailored, precision approach to care. However, integrating the multiple streams of time-varying data is challenging and often not possible during routine bedside assessment. The authors review and discuss the principles and evidence underlying several widely used invasive neuromonitors. They also provide a framework for integrating data for clinical decision making and discuss future developments in informatics that may allow new treatment paradigms to be developed.
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- Saurabh Sinha
- Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine; and
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine; and
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine; and
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- Department of Neurology, Division of Neurocritical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Lazaridis C, Robertson CS. The Role of Multimodal Invasive Monitoring in Acute Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2017; 27:509-17. [PMID: 27637400 DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2016.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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This article reviews the role of modalities that directly monitor brain parenchyma in patients with severe traumatic brain injury. The physiology monitored involves compartmental and perfusion pressures, tissue oxygenation and metabolism, quantitative blood flow, pressure autoregulation, and electrophysiology. There are several proposed roles for this multimodality monitoring, such as to track, prevent, and treat the cascade of secondary brain injury; monitor the neurologically injured patient; integrate various data into a composite, patient-specific, and dynamic picture; apply protocolized, pathophysiology-driven intensive care; use as a prognostic marker; and understand pathophysiologic mechanisms involved in secondary brain injury to develop preventive and abortive therapies, and to inform future clinical trials.
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- Christos Lazaridis
- Division of Neurocritical Care, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, McNair Campus, 7200 Cambridge Street, 9th Floor, MS: NB302, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Seule M, Isaak R, Sanchez-Porras R, Sakowitz O, Keller E, Unterberg A, Orakcioglu B. Evaluation of a New Brain Tissue Probe for Cerebral Blood Flow Monitoring in an Experimental Pig Model. Neurosurgery 2016; 79:905-911. [DOI: 10.1227/neu.0000000000001424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Seule M, Sikorski C, Sakowitz O, von Campe G, Santos E, Orakcioglu B, Unterberg A, Keller E. Evaluation of a New Brain Tissue Probe for Intracranial Pressure, Temperature, and Cerebral Blood Flow Monitoring in Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Neurocrit Care 2016; 25:193-200. [DOI: 10.1007/s12028-016-0284-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Mukerji N, Cook DJ, Steinberg GK. An Alternative Display Could Lead to Earlier Diagnosis of Intracerebral Pathology with a Hemedex Flow Probe In Situ. World Neurosurg 2015; 84:2079.e1-5. [PMID: 26341435 DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2015.08.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2015] [Revised: 08/13/2015] [Accepted: 08/14/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To report 2 cases of patients who had an ischemic stroke and an intracerebral hematoma after a superficial temporal artery-middle cerebral artery bypass with a thermal diffusion blood flow probe in situ and emphasize how a change in the way the data are presented could have led to an earlier diagnosis. METHODS Both patients had flow probes within 2 cm of the graft site and were thus close enough to be representative of local or regional rather than global perfusion. Data smoothening was applied to the raw data that were available and displayed on the monitor. Both the smoothed plots and the raw plots were analyzed. RESULTS Good clinical correlation was observed between the flow probe data and the clinical condition of both patients. This was more apparent when viewing the smoothed plots. CONCLUSIONS Although there was good clinical correlation, data displayed on the perfusion monitor can be incorrectly interpreted because the signal-to-noise ratio is small. We therefore suggest an alternative presentation of perfusion data for clinicians to recognize hypoperfusion and to take informed action before a stroke or hematoma is clinically manifest.
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- Nitin Mukerji
- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
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Nouveaux outils de neuromonitorage. MEDECINE INTENSIVE REANIMATION 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s13546-015-1099-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Svenkeson D, Sena B, Oishi M, Pappu S, Yonas H. A novel use of transfer function estimation for early assessment of brain injury outcome. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2014; 61:2413-21. [PMID: 24760897 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2014.2317942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Normal blood flow in the brain as a response to pressure fluctuations is commonly referred to as cerebral autoregulation. Linear, nonparametric models of cerebral autoregulation were estimated for 77 human subjects afflicted with brain injury, with mean arterial pressure used as input, and invasively measured regional cerebral blood flow used as output. The data were continuously monitored from the beginning of subject hospital stay. Mean transfer function gain as a function of frequency was calculated for each subject over a limited time window spanning 48 h, starting postsurgery. The mean transfer function gain of the cerebral autoregulation model provided a highly accurate, statistically significant, assessment of patient outcome. Subjects were accurately grouped by outcome, with a high significance ( ) across the entire measurement spectrum (0.005-0.25 Hz). In addition, the frequency band from 0.1 to 0.25 Hz contains particularly low variance in transfer function gain. This spectral region provides a highly statistically significant ( ) assessment of brain injury patient health that is useful for outcome prediction.
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