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Fedriga M, Martini S, Iodice FG, Sortica da Costa C, Pezzato S, Moscatelli A, Beqiri E, Czosnyka M, Smielewski P, Agrawal S. Cerebral autoregulation in paediatric and neonatal intensive care: A scoping review. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2024:271678X241261944. [PMID: 38867574 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x241261944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
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Deranged cerebral autoregulation (CA) is associated with worse outcome in adult brain injury. Strategies for monitoring CA and maintaining the brain at its 'best CA status' have been implemented, however, this approach has not yet developed for the paediatric population. This scoping review aims to find up-to-date evidence on CA assessment in children and neonates with a view to identify patient categories in which CA has been measured so far, CA monitoring methods and its relationship with clinical outcome if any. A literature search was conducted for studies published within 31st December 2022 in 3 bibliographic databases. Out of 494 papers screened, this review includes 135 studies. Our literature search reveals evidence for CA measurement in the paediatric population across different diagnostic categories and age groups. The techniques adopted, indices and thresholds used to assess and define CA are heterogeneous. We discuss the relevance of available evidence for CA assessment in the paediatric population. However, due to small number of studies and heterogeneity of methods used, there is no conclusive evidence to support universal adoption of CA monitoring, technique, and methodology. This calls for further work to understand the clinical impact of CA monitoring in paediatric and neonatal intensive care.
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- Marta Fedriga
- Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, IRCCS Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy
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- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, IRCCS AOUBO, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, IRCCS, Bambino Gesu' Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, IRCCS Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy
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- Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, IRCCS Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Paediatric Intensive Care, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Klein SP, Decraene B, De Sloovere V, Kempen B, Meyfroidt G, Depreitere B. The Pressure Reactivity Index as a Measure for Cerebrovascular Autoregulation: Validation in a Porcine Cranial Window Model. Neurosurgery 2024:00006123-990000000-01207. [PMID: 38861643 DOI: 10.1227/neu.0000000000003019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2023] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 06/13/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Pressure reactivity index (PRx) has been proposed as a metric associated with cerebrovascular autoregulatory (CA) function and has been thoroughly investigated in clinical research. In this study, PRx is validated in a porcine cranial window model, developed to visualize pial arteriolar autoregulation and its limits. METHODS We measured arterial blood pressure, intracranial pressure, pial arteriolar diameter, and red blood cell (RBC) velocity in a closed cranial window piglet model during gradual balloon catheter-induced arterial hypotension (n = 10) or hypertension (n = 10). CA limits were derived through piecewise linear regression of calculated RBC flux vs cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP), leading for each arteriole to 1 lower limit of autoregulation (LLA) and 2 upper limits of autoregulation (ULA1 and ULA2). Autoregulation limits were compared with PRx thresholds, and receiver operating curve analysis was performed with and without CPP binning. A linear mixed effects model of PRx was performed. RESULTS Receiver operating curve analysis indicated an area under the curve (AUC) for LLA prediction by a PRx of 0.65 (95% CI: 0.64-0.67) and 0.77 (95% CI: 0.69-0.86) without and with CPP binning, respectively. The AUC for ULA1 prediction by PRx was 0.69 (95% CI: 0.68-0.69) without and 0.75 (95% CI: 0.68-0.82) with binning. The AUC for ULA2 prediction was 0.55 (95% CI: 0.55-0.58) without and 0.63 (95% CI 0.53-0.72) with binning. The sensitivity and specificity of binned PRx were 65%/90% for LLA, 69%/71% for ULA1, and 59%/74% for ULA2, showing wide interindividual variability. In the linear mixed effects model, pial arteriolar diameter changes were significantly associated with PRx changes (P = .002), whereas RBC velocity (P = .28) and RBC flux (P = .24) were not. CONCLUSION We conclude that PRx is predominantly determined by pial arteriolar diameter changes and moderately predicts CA limits. Performance to detect the CA limits varied highly on an individual level. Active therapeutic strategies based on PRx and the associated correlation metrics should incorporate these limitations.
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- Samuel P Klein
- Neurosurgery Center Limburg, Jessa Hospital, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Neurosurgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Froese L, Gomez A, Sainbhi AS, Vakitbilir N, Marquez I, Amenta F, Park K, Stein KY, Berrington N, Dhaliwal P, Zeiler FA. Optimal bispectral index exists in healthy patients undergoing general anesthesia: A validation study. J Clin Monit Comput 2024:10.1007/s10877-024-01136-3. [PMID: 38436898 DOI: 10.1007/s10877-024-01136-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2023] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024]
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PURPOSE Continuous cerebrovascular reactivity monitoring in both neurocritical and intra-operative care has gained extensive interest in recent years, as it has documented associations with long-term outcomes (in neurocritical care populations) and cognitive outcomes (in operative cohorts). This has sparked further interest into the exploration and evaluation of methods to achieve an optimal cerebrovascular reactivity measure, where the individual patient is exposed to the lowest insult burden of impaired cerebrovascular reactivity. Recent literature has documented, in neural injury populations, the presence of a potential optimal sedation level in neurocritical care, based on the relationship between cerebrovascular reactivity and quantitative depth of sedation (using bispectral index (BIS)) - termed BISopt. The presence of this measure outside of neural injury patients has yet to be proven. METHODS We explore the relationship between BIS and continuous cerebrovascular reactivity in two cohorts: (A) healthy population undergoing elective spinal surgery under general anesthesia, and (B) healthy volunteer cohort of awake controls. RESULTS We demonstrate the presence of BISopt in the general anesthesia population (96% of patients), and its absence in awake controls, providing preliminary validation of its existence outside of neural injury populations. Furthermore, we found BIS to be sufficiently separate from overall systemic blood pressure, this indicates that they impact different pathophysiological phenomena to mediate cerebrovascular reactivity. CONCLUSIONS Findings here carry implications for the adaptation of the individualized physiologic BISopt concept to non-neural injury populations, both within critical care and the operative theater. However, this work is currently exploratory, and future work is required.
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- Logan Froese
- Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Undergraduate Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Undergraduate Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Undergraduate Medical Education, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Undergraduate Medical Education, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Gomez A, Sainbhi AS, Stein KY, Vakitbilir N, Froese L, Zeiler FA. Statistical properties of cerebral near infrared and intracranial pressure-based cerebrovascular reactivity metrics in moderate and severe neural injury: a machine learning and time-series analysis. Intensive Care Med Exp 2023; 11:57. [PMID: 37635181 PMCID: PMC10460757 DOI: 10.1186/s40635-023-00541-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Cerebrovascular reactivity has been identified as a key contributor to secondary injury following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Prevalent intracranial pressure (ICP) based indices of cerebrovascular reactivity are limited by their invasive nature and poor spatial resolution. Fortunately, interest has been building around near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) based measures of cerebrovascular reactivity that utilize regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rSO2) as a surrogate for pulsatile cerebral blood volume (CBV). In this study, the relationship between ICP- and rSO2-based indices of cerebrovascular reactivity, in a cohort of critically ill TBI patients, is explored using classical machine learning clustering techniques and multivariate time-series analysis. METHODS High-resolution physiologic data were collected in a cohort of adult moderate to severe TBI patients at a single quaternary care site. From this data both ICP- and rSO2-based indices of cerebrovascular reactivity were derived. Utilizing agglomerative hierarchical clustering and principal component analysis, the relationship between these indices in higher dimensional physiologic space was examined. Additionally, using vector autoregressive modeling, the response of change in ICP and rSO2 (ΔICP and ΔrSO2, respectively) to an impulse in change in arterial blood pressure (ΔABP) was also examined for similarities. RESULTS A total of 83 patients with 428,775 min of unique and complete physiologic data were obtained. Through agglomerative hierarchical clustering and principal component analysis, there was higher order clustering between rSO2- and ICP-based indices, separate from other physiologic parameters. Additionally, modeled responses of ΔICP and ΔrSO2 to impulses in ΔABP were similar, indicating that ΔrSO2 may be a valid surrogate for pulsatile CBV. CONCLUSIONS rSO2- and ICP-based indices of cerebrovascular reactivity relate to one another in higher dimensional physiologic space. ΔICP and ΔrSO2 behave similar in modeled responses to impulses in ΔABP. This work strengthens the body of evidence supporting the similarities between ICP-based and rSO2-based indices of cerebrovascular reactivity and opens the door to cerebrovascular reactivity monitoring in settings where invasive ICP monitoring is not feasible.
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- Alwyn Gomez
- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Karolinksa Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Froese L, Hammarlund E, Åkerlund CAI, Tjerkaski J, Hong E, Lindblad C, Nelson DW, Thelin EP, Zeiler FA. The impact of sedative and vasopressor agents on cerebrovascular reactivity in severe traumatic brain injury. Intensive Care Med Exp 2023; 11:54. [PMID: 37541993 PMCID: PMC10403459 DOI: 10.1186/s40635-023-00524-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 08/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of commonly administered sedatives (Propofol, Alfentanil, Fentanyl, and Midazolam) and vasopressor (Dobutamine, Ephedrine, Noradrenaline and Vasopressin) agents on cerebrovascular reactivity in moderate/severe TBI patients. Cerebrovascular reactivity, as a surrogate for cerebral autoregulation was assessed using the long pressure reactivity index (LPRx). We evaluated the data in two phases, first we assessed the minute-by-minute data relationships between different dosing amounts of continuous infusion agents and physiological variables using boxplots, multiple linear regression and ANOVA. Next, we assessed the relationship between continuous/bolus infusion agents and physiological variables, assessing pre-/post- dose of medication change in physiology using a Wilcoxon signed-ranked test. Finally, we evaluated sub-groups of data for each individual dose change per medication, focusing on key physiological thresholds and demographics. RESULTS Of the 475 patients with an average stay of 10 days resulting in over 3000 days of recorded information 367 (77.3%) were male with a median Glasgow coma score of 7 (4-9). The results of this retrospective observational study confirmed that the infusion of most administered agents do not impact cerebrovascular reactivity, which is confirmed by the multiple linear regression components having p value > 0.05. Incremental dose changes or bolus doses in these medications in general do not lead to significant changes in cerebrovascular reactivity (confirm by Wilcoxon signed-ranked p value > 0.05 for nearly all assessed relationships). Within the sub-group analysis that separated the data based on LPRx pre-dose, a significance between pre-/post-drug change in LPRx was seen, however this may be more of a result from patient state than drug impact. CONCLUSIONS Overall, this study indicates that commonly administered agents with incremental dosing changes have no clinically significant influence on cerebrovascular reactivity in TBI (nor do they impair cerebrovascular reactivity). Though further investigation in a larger and more diverse TBI patient population is required.
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- Logan Froese
- Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Section of Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Neurosurgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Section of Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
- Centre On Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
- Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Sainbhi AS, Marquez I, Gomez A, Stein KY, Amenta F, Vakitbilir N, Froese L, Zeiler FA. Regional disparity in continuously measured time-domain cerebrovascular reactivity indices: a scoping review of human literature. Physiol Meas 2023; 44:07TR02. [PMID: 37336236 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/acdfb6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/21/2023]
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Objective: Cerebral blood vessels maintaining relatively constant cerebral blood flow (CBF) over wide range of systemic arterial blood pressure (ABP) is referred to as cerebral autoregulation (CA). Impairments in CA expose the brain to pressure-passive flow states leading to hypoperfusion and hyperperfusion. Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) metrics refer to surrogate metrics of pressure-based CA that evaluate the relationship between slow vasogenic fluctuations in cerebral perfusion pressure/ABP and a surrogate for pulsatile CBF/cerebral blood volume.Approach: We performed a systematically conducted scoping review of all available human literature examining the association between continuous CVR between more than one brain region/channel using the same CVR index.Main Results: In all the included 22 articles, only handful of transcranial doppler (TCD) and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) based metrics were calculated for only two brain regions/channels. These metrics found no difference between left and right sides in healthy volunteer, cardiac surgery, and intracranial hemorrhage patient studies. In contrast, significant differences were reported in endarterectomy, and subarachnoid hemorrhage studies, while varying results were found regarding regional disparity in stroke, traumatic brain injury, and multiple population studies.Significance: Further research is required to evaluate regional disparity using NIRS-based indices and to understand if NIRS-based indices provide better regional disparity information than TCD-based indices.
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- Amanjyot Singh Sainbhi
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Undergraduate Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Undergraduate Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Karolinksa Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Froese L, Sainbhi AS, Gomez A, Marquez I, Amenta F, Batson C, Stein KY, Zeiler FA. Discrete Fourier Transform Windowing Techniques for Cerebral Physiological Research in Neural Injury: A Practical Demonstration. Neurotrauma Rep 2023; 4:410-419. [PMID: 37360544 PMCID: PMC10288301 DOI: 10.1089/neur.2022.0079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
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To optimally assess oscillatory phenomena within physiological variables, spectral domain transforms are used. A discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is one of the most common methods used to attain this spectral change. In traumatic brain injury (TBI), a DFT is used to derive more complicated methods of physiological assessment, particularly that of cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR). However, a practical application of a DFT will introduce various errors that need to be considered. This study will evaluate the pulse amplitude DFT derivation of intracranial pressure (AMP) to highlight how slight differences in DFT methodologies can impact calculations. Utilizing a high-frequency prospectively maintained data set of TBI patients with recorded arterial and intracranial blood pressure, various cerebral physiological aspects of interest were assessed using the DFT windowing methods of rectangular, Hanning, and Chebyshev. These included AMP, CVR indices (including the pressure reactivity and pulse amplitude index), and the optimal cerebral perfusion pressure (with all methods of CVR). The results of the different DFT-derived windowing methods were compared using the Wilcoxon signed-ranked test and histogram plots between individual patients and over the whole 100-patient cohort. The results for this analysis demonstrate that, overall and for grand average values, there were limited differences between the different DFT windowing techniques. However, there were individual patient outliers to whom the different methods resulted in noticeably different overall values. From this information, for derived indices utilizing a DFT in the assessment of AMP, there are limited differences within the resulting calculations for larger aggregates of data. However, when the amplitude of spectrally resolved response is important and needs to be robust in smaller moments in time, it is recommended to use a window that has amplitude accuracy (such as Chebyshev or flat-top).
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- Logan Froese
- Biomedical Engineering, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Undergraduate Engineering Program, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Undergraduate Engineering Program, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Froese L, Gomez A, Sainbhi AS, Vakitbilir N, Marquez I, Amenta F, Stein KY, Zeiler FA. Temporal relationship between vasopressor and sedative administration and cerebrovascular response in traumatic brain injury: a time-series analysis. Intensive Care Med Exp 2023; 11:30. [PMID: 37246179 DOI: 10.1186/s40635-023-00515-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Accepted: 04/21/2023] [Indexed: 05/30/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Although vasopressor and sedative agents are commonly used within the intensive care unit to mediate systemic and cerebral physiology, the full impact such agents have on cerebrovascular reactivity remains unclear. Using a prospectively maintained database of high-resolution critical care and physiology, the time-series relationship between vasopressor/sedative administration, and cerebrovascular reactivity was interrogated. Cerebrovascular reactivity was assessed through intracranial pressure and near infrared spectroscopy measures. Using these derived measures, the relationship between hourly dose of medication and hourly index values could be evaluated. The individual medication dose change and their corresponding physiological response was compared. Given the high number of doses of propofol and norepinephrine, a latent profile analysis was used to identify any underlying demographic or variable relationships. Finally, using time-series methodologies of Granger causality and vector impulse response functions, the relationships between the cerebrovascular reactivity derived variables were compared. RESULTS From this retrospective observational study of 103 TBI patients, the evaluation between the changes in vasopressor or sedative agent dosing and the previously described cerebral physiologies was completed. The assessment of the physiology pre/post infusion agent change resulted in similar overall values (Wilcoxon signed-ranked p value > 0.05). Time series methodologies demonstrated that the basic physiological relationships were identical before and after an infusion agent was changed (Granger causality demonstrated the same directional impact in over 95% of the moments, with response function being graphically identical). CONCLUSIONS This study suggests that overall, there was a limited association between the changes in vasopressor or sedative agent dosing and the previously described cerebral physiologies including that of cerebrovascular reactivity. Thus, current regimens of administered sedative and vasopressor agents appear to have little to no impact on cerebrovascular reactivity in TBI.
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- Logan Froese
- Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
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- Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Undergraduate Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Undergraduate Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Undergraduate Medical Education, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Sainbhi AS, Froese L, Gomez A, Marquez I, Amenta F, Batson C, Stein KY, Zeiler FA. High spatial and temporal resolution cerebrovascular reactivity for humans and large mammals: A technological description of integrated fNIRS and niABP mapping system. Front Physiol 2023; 14:1124268. [PMID: 36755788 PMCID: PMC9899997 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1124268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2022] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Introduction: The process of cerebral vessels maintaining cerebral blood flow (CBF) fairly constant over a wide range of arterial blood pressure is referred to as cerebral autoregulation (CA). Cerebrovascular reactivity is the mechanism behind this process, which maintains CBF through constriction and dilation of cerebral vessels. Traditionally CA has been assessed statistically, limited by large, immobile, and costly neuroimaging platforms. However, with recent technology advancement, dynamic autoregulation assessment is able to provide more detailed information on the evolution of CA over long periods of time with continuous assessment. Yet, to date, such continuous assessments have been hampered by low temporal and spatial resolution systems, that are typically reliant on invasive point estimations of pulsatile CBF or cerebral blood volume using commercially available technology. Methods: Using a combination of multi-channel functional near-infrared spectroscopy and non-invasive arterial blood pressure devices, we were able to create a system that visualizes CA metrics by converting them to heat maps drawn on a template of human brain. Results: The custom Python heat map module works in "offline" mode to visually portray the CA index per channel with the use of colourmap. The module was tested on two different mapping grids, 8 channel and 24 channel, using data from two separate recordings and the Python heat map module was able read the CA indices file and represent the data visually at a preselected rate of 10 s. Conclusion: The generation of the heat maps are entirely non-invasive, with high temporal and spatial resolution by leveraging the recent advances in NIRS technology along with niABP. The CA mapping system is in its initial stage and development plans are ready to transform it from "offline" to real-time heat map generation.
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- Amanjyot Singh Sainbhi
- Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada,*Correspondence: Amanjyot Singh Sainbhi,
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- Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada,Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Undergraduate Engineering Program, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Undergraduate Engineering Program, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada,Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada,Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada,Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden,Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Zeiler FA, Aries M, Czosnyka M, Smieleweski P. Cerebral Autoregulation Monitoring in Traumatic Brain Injury: An Overview of Recent Advances in Personalized Medicine. J Neurotrauma 2022; 39:1477-1494. [PMID: 35793108 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2022.0217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Impaired cerebral autoregulation (CA) in moderate/severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been identified as a strong associate with poor long-term outcomes, with recent data highlighting its dominance over cerebral physiologic dysfunction seen in the acute phase post injury. With advances in bedside continuous cerebral physiologic signal processing, continuously derived metrics of CA capacity have been described over the past two decades, leading to improvements in cerebral physiologic insult detection and development of novel personalized approaches to TBI care in the intensive care unit (ICU). This narrative review focuses on highlighting the concept of continuous CA monitoring and consequences of impairment in moderate/severe TBI. Further, we provide a comprehensive description and overview of the main personalized cerebral physiologic targets, based on CA monitoring, that are emerging as strong associates with patient outcomes. CA-based personalized targets, such as optimal cerebral perfusion pressure (CPPopt), lower/upper limit of regulation (LLR/ULR), and individualized intra-cranial pressure (iICP) are positioned to change the way we care for TBI patients in the ICU, moving away from the "one treatment fits all" paradigm of current guideline-based therapeutic approaches, towards a true personalized medicine approach tailored to the individual patient. Future perspectives regarding research needs in this field are also discussed.
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- Frederick Adam Zeiler
- Health Sciences Centre, Section of Neurosurgery, GB-1 820 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3A1R9;
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- University of Maastricht Medical Center, Department of Intensive Care, Maastricht, Netherlands;
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- university of cambridge, neurosurgery, Canbridge Biomedical Campus, box 167, cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, cb237ar;
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- Cambridge University, Neurosurgery, Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;
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Mahajan C, Kapoor I, Prabhakar H. A Narrative Review on Translational Research in Acute Brain Injury. JOURNAL OF NEUROANAESTHESIOLOGY AND CRITICAL CARE 2022. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1744399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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AbstractThere has been a constant endeavor to reduce the mortality and morbidity associated with acute brain injury. The associated complex mechanisms involving biomechanics, markers, and neuroprotective drugs/measures have been extensively studied in preclinical studies with an ultimate aim to improve the patients' outcomes. Despite such efforts, only few have been successfully translated into clinical practice. In this review, we shall be discussing the major hurdles in the translation of preclinical results into clinical practice. The need is to choose an appropriate animal model, keeping in mind the species, age, and gender of the animal, choosing suitable outcome measures, ensuring quality of animal trials, and carrying out systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental studies before proceeding to human trials. The interdisciplinary collaboration between the preclinical and clinical scientists will help to design better, meaningful trials which might help a long way in successful translation. Although challenging at this stage, the advent of translational precision medicine will help the integration of mechanism-centric translational medicine and patient-centric precision medicine.
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- Charu Mahajan
- Department of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Sainbhi AS, Froese L, Gomez A, Batson C, Stein KY, Alizadeh A, Zeiler FA. Continuous Time-Domain Cerebrovascular Reactivity Metrics and Discriminate Capacity for the Upper and Lower Limits of Autoregulation: A Scoping Review of the Animal Literature. Neurotrauma Rep 2022; 2:639-659. [PMID: 35018365 PMCID: PMC8742280 DOI: 10.1089/neur.2021.0043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Over a wide range of systemic arterial pressures, cerebral blood flow (CBF) is regulated fairly constantly by the cerebral vessels in a process termed cerebral autoregulation (CA), which is depicted by the Lassen autoregulatory curve. After traumatic brain injury (TBI), CA can get impaired and these impairments manifest in changes of the Lassen autoregulatory curve. Continuous surrogate metrics of pressure-based CA, termed cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) metrics, evaluate the relationship between slow vasogenic fluctuations in a driving pressure for cerebral blood flow, and the most commonly studied and utilized measures are based in the time domain and have been increasingly applied in bedside TBI care and have sparked the investigation of individualized cerebral perfusion pressure targets. However, not all CVR metrics have been validated as true measures of autoregulation in the pre-clinical setting. We reviewed all available pre-clinical animal literature that assessed the association between continuous time-domain metrics of CVR and some aspect of the Lassen autoregulatory curve. All 15 articles found associated the evaluated continuous metrics to the lower limit of autoregulation curve whereas none looked at the upper limit. Most of the evaluated metrics showed the ability to discriminate the lower limit of autoregulation with various methods of perturbation. Further work is required to evaluate the utility of such surrogate measures against the upper limit of autoregulation, while also providing validation to the existing literature supporting specific indices and their ability to discriminate the lower limit.
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- Amanjyot Singh Sainbhi
- Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Batson C, Stein KY, Gomez A, Sainbhi AS, Froese L, Alizadeh A, Mathieu F, Zeiler FA. Intracranial Pressure–Derived Cerebrovascular Reactivity Indices, Chronological Age, and Biological Sex in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Scoping Review. Neurotrauma Rep 2022; 3:44-56. [PMID: 35112107 PMCID: PMC8804238 DOI: 10.1089/neur.2021.0054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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To date, there has been limited literature exploring the association between age and sex with cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) in moderate/severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Given the known link between age, sex, and cerebrovascular function, knowledge of the impacts on continuously assessed CVR is critical for the development of future therapeutics. We conducted a scoping review of the literature for studies that had a direct statistical interrogation of the relationship between age, sex, and continuous intracranial pressure (ICP)-based indices of CVR in moderate/severe TBI. The ICP-based indices researched included: pressure reactivity index (PRx), pulse amplitude index (PAx), and RAC. MEDLINE, BIOSIS, EMBASE, SCOPUS, Global Health, and the Cochrane library were searched from inception to June 2021 for relevant articles. A total of 10 original studies fulfilled our inclusion criteria. Nine of the articles documented a correlation between advanced age and worse CVR, with eight using PRx (2192 total patients), three using PAx (978 total patients), and one using RAC (358 total patients), p < 0.05; R ranging from 0.17 to 0.495 for all indices across all studies. Three articles (1256 total patients) displayed a correlation between biological sex and PRx, with females trending towards higher PRx values (p < 0.05) in the limited available literature. However, no literature exists comparing PAx or RAC with biological sex. Findings showed that aging was associated with impaired CVR. We observed a trend between female sex and worse PRx values, but the literature was limited and statistical significance was borderline. The identified studies were few in number, carried significant population heterogeneity, and utilized grand averaging of large epochs of physiology during statistical comparisons with age and biological sex. Because of the heterogeneous nature of TBI populations and limited focus on the effects of age and sex on outcomes in TBI, it is challenging to highlight the differences between the indices and patient age groups and sex. The largest study showing an association between PRx and age was done by Zeiler and colleagues, where 165 patients were studied noting that patients with a mean PRx value above zero had a mean age above 51.4 years versus a mean age of 41.4 years for those with a mean PRx value below zero (p = 0.0007). The largest study showing an association between PRx and sex was done by Czosnyka and colleagues, where 469 patients were studied noting that for patients <50 years of age, PRx was worse in females (0.11 ± 0.047) compared to males (0.044 ± 0.031), p < 0.05. The findings from these 10 studies provide preliminary data, but are insufficient to definitively characterize the impact of age and sex on CVR in moderate/severe TBI. Future work in the field should focus on the impact of age and sex on multi-modal cerebral physiological monitoring.
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- Carleen Batson
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Klein SP, De Sloovere V, Meyfroidt G, Depreitere B. Differential Hemodynamic Response of Pial Arterioles Contributes to a Quadriphasic Cerebral Autoregulation Physiology. J Am Heart Assoc 2021; 11:e022943. [PMID: 34935426 PMCID: PMC9075199 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.121.022943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Background Cerebrovascular autoregulation (CA) regulates cerebral vascular tone to maintain near-constant cerebral blood flow during fluctuations in cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP). Preclinical and clinical research has challenged the classic triphasic pressure-flow relationship, leaving the normal pressure-flow relationship unclear. Methods and Results We used in vivo imaging of the hemodynamic response in pial arterioles to study CA in a porcine closed cranial window model during nonpharmacological blood pressure manipulation. Red blood cell flux was determined in 52 pial arterioles during 10 hypotension and 10 hypertension experiments to describe the pressure-flow relationship. We found a quadriphasic pressure-flow relationship with 4 distinct physiological phases. Smaller arterioles demonstrated greater vasodilation during low CPP when compared with large arterioles (P<0.01), whereas vasoconstrictive capacity during high CPP was not significantly different between arterioles (P>0.9). The upper limit of CA was defined by 2 breakpoints. Increases in CPP lead to a point of maximal vasoconstriction of the smallest pial arterioles (upper limit of autoregulation [ULA] 1). Beyond ULA1, only larger arterioles maintain a limited additional vasoconstrictive capacity, extending the buffer for high CPP. Beyond ULA2, vasoconstrictive capacity is exhausted, and all pial arterioles passively dilate. There was substantial intersubject variability, with ranges of 29.2, 47.3, and 50.9 mm Hg for the lower limit, ULA1, and ULA2, respectively. Conclusions We provide new insights into the quadriphasic physiology of CA, differentiating between truly active CA and an extended capacity to buffer increased CPP with progressive failure of CA. In this experimental model, the limits of CA widely varied between subjects.
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- Samuel P Klein
- Department of Neurosurgery University Hospitals Leuven Leuven Belgium
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine University Hospitals Leuven Leuven Belgium
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- Department of Neurosurgery University Hospitals Leuven Leuven Belgium
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Svedung Wettervik T, Fahlström M, Enblad P, Lewén A. Cerebral Pressure Autoregulation in Brain Injury and Disorders-A Review on Monitoring, Management, and Future Directions. World Neurosurg 2021; 158:118-131. [PMID: 34775084 DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.11.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Revised: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 11/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The role of cerebral pressure autoregulation (CPA) in brain injury and disorders has gained increased interest. The CPA is often disturbed as a consequence of acute brain injury, which contributes to further brain damage and worse outcome. Specifically, in severe traumatic brain injury, CPA disturbances predict worse clinical outcome and targeting an autoregulatory-oriented optimal cerebral perfusion pressure threshold may improve brain energy metabolism and clinical outcome. In aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral vasospasm in combination with distal autoregulatory disturbances precipitate delayed cerebral ischemia. The role of optimal cerebral perfusion pressure targets is less clear in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, but high cerebral perfusion pressure targets are generally favorable in the vasospasm phase. In acute ischemia, autoregulatory disturbances may occur and autoregulatory-oriented blood pressure (optimal mean arterial pressure) management reduces the risk of hemorrhagic transformation, brain edema, and unfavorable outcome. In chronic occlusive disease such as moyamoya, the gradual reduction of the cerebral circulation leads to compensatory distal vasodilation and the residual CPA capacity predicts the risk for cerebral ischemia. In spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, the role of autoregulatory disturbances is less clear, but CPA disturbances correlate with worse clinical outcome. Also, in community-acquired bacterial meningitis, CPA dysfunction is frequent and correlates with worse clinical outcome, but autoregulatory management is yet to be evaluated. In this review, we discuss the role of CPA in different types of brain injury and disease, the strengths and limitations of the monitoring methods, the potentials of autoregulatory management, and future directions in the field.
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- Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Radiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Neuroscience, Section of Neurosurgery, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Neuroscience, Section of Neurosurgery, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Appavu B, Temkit M'H, Foldes S, Burrows BT, Kuwabara M, Jacobson A, Adelson PD. Association of Outcomes with Model-Based Indices of Cerebral Autoregulation After Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurocrit Care 2021; 35:640-650. [PMID: 34268644 DOI: 10.1007/s12028-021-01279-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND We investigated whether model-based indices of cerebral autoregulation (CA) are associated with outcomes after pediatric traumatic brain injury. METHODS This was a retrospective analysis of a prospective clinical database of 56 pediatric patients with traumatic brain injury undergoing intracranial pressure monitoring. CA indices were calculated, including pressure reactivity index (PRx), wavelet pressure reactivity index (wPRx), pulse amplitude index (PAx), and correlation coefficient between intracranial pressure pulse amplitude and cerebral perfusion pressure (RAC). Each CA index was used to compute optimal cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP). Time of CPP below lower limit of autoregulation (LLA) or above upper limit of autoregulation (ULA) were computed for each index. Demographic, physiologic, and neuroimaging data were collected. Primary outcome was determined using Pediatric Glasgow Outcome Scale Extended (GOSE-Peds) at 12 months, with higher scores being suggestive of unfavorable outcome. Univariate and multiple linear regression with guided stepwise variable selection was used to find combinations of risk factors that can best explain the variability of GOSE-Peds scores, and the best fit model was applied to the age strata. We hypothesized that higher GOSE-Peds scores were associated with higher CA values and more time below LLA or above ULA for each index. RESULTS At the univariate level, CPP, dose of intracranial hypertension, PRx, PAx, wPRx, RAC, percent time more than ULA derived for PAx, and percent time less than LLA derived for PRx, PAx, wPRx, and RAC were all associated with GOSE-Peds scores. The best subset model selection on all pediatric patients identified that when accounting for CPP, increased dose of intracranial hypertension and percent time less than LLA derived for wPRx were independently associated with higher GOSE-Peds scores. Age stratification of the best fit model identified that in children less than 2 years of age or 8 years of age or more, percent time less than LLA derived for wPRx represented the sole independent predictor of higher GOSE-Peds scores when accounting for CPP and dose of intracranial hypertension. For children 2 years or younger to less than 8 years of age, dose of intracranial hypertension was identified as the sole independent predictor of higher GOSE-Peds scores when accounting for CPP and percent time less than LLA derived for wPRx. CONCLUSIONS Increased dose of intracranial hypertension, PRx, wPRx, PAx, and RAC values and increased percentage time less than LLA based on PRx, wPRx, PAx, and RAC are associated with higher GOSE-Peds scores, suggestive of unfavorable outcome. Reducing intracranial hypertension and maintaining CPP more than LLA based on wPRx may improve outcomes and warrants prospective investigation.
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- Brian Appavu
- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 4th Floor, Phoenix, AZ, USA. .,Department of Child Health, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 4th Floor, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 4th Floor, Phoenix, AZ, USA.,Department of Child Health, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 4th Floor, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Department of Child Health, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, USA.,Department of Radiology, Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 4th Floor, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 4th Floor, Phoenix, AZ, USA.,Department of Child Health, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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Errors and Consequences of Inaccurate Estimation of Mean Blood Flow Velocity in Cerebral Arteries. ACTA NEUROCHIRURGICA. SUPPLEMENT 2021; 131:23-25. [PMID: 33839811 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59436-7_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Many transcranial Doppler ultrasonography devices estimate the mean flow velocity (FVm) by using the traditional formula (FVsystolic + 2 × FVdiastolic)/3 instead of a more accurate formula calculating it as the time integral of the current flow velocities divided by the integration period. We retrospectively analyzed flow velocity and intracranial pressure signals containing plateau waves (transient intracranial hypertension), which were collected from 14 patients with a traumatic brain injury. The differences in FVm and its derivative pulsatility index (PI) calculated with the two different methods were determined. We found that during plateau waves, when the intracranial pressure (ICP) rose, the error in FVm and PI increased significantly from the baseline to the plateau (from 4.6 ± 2.4 to 9.8 ± 4.9 cm/s, P < 0.05). Similarly, the error in PI also increased during plateau waves (from 0.11 ± 0.07 to 0.44 ± 0.24, P < 0.005). These effects were most likely due to changes in the pulse waveform during increased ICP, which alter the relationship between systolic, diastolic, and mean flow velocities. If a change in the mean ICP is expected, then calculation of FVm with the traditional formula is not recommended.
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Zeiler FA. Point-of-Care Noninvasive Assessments of Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Traumatic Brain Injury: Integrating the Physiome with Clinical Phenotype. Ann Neurol 2021; 90:19-21. [PMID: 33931898 DOI: 10.1002/ana.26092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Revised: 04/25/2021] [Accepted: 04/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Frederick A Zeiler
- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.,Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.,Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.,Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.,Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Sedation and cerebrovascular reactivity in traumatic brain injury: another potential avenue for personalized approaches in neurocritical care? Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2021; 163:1383-1389. [PMID: 33404872 DOI: 10.1007/s00701-020-04662-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2020] [Accepted: 11/28/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Impaired cerebrovascular reactivity appears to be linked to worse global outcome in adult traumatic brain injury (TBI). Literature suggests that current treatments administered in TBI care, in the intensive care unit (ICU), fail to greatly impact recorded cerebrovascular reactivity measures. In particular, the impact of sedation on cerebrovascular reactivity in traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains unclear in vivo. The goal of this study was to preliminarily assess the relationship between objectively measured depth of sedation and cerebrovascular reactivity in TBI. METHODS Within, we describe a case series of 5 adult TBI patients with TBI, during which objective high-frequency physiology for sedation depth, using bispectral index (BIS), and both intracranial pressure (ICP) and arterial blood pressure (ABP) were recorded. Pressure reactivity index (PRx) and RAP (a metric of cerebral compensatory reserve) were derived. Relationships between cerebrovascular reactivity and compensatory reserve monitoring with BIS metrics were explored using descriptive plots. RESULTS A total of 5 cases in our prospectively maintained database with high-frequency physiology for ICP, ABP, and BIS. Through error bar plotting, it can be seen that each patient displays a parabolic relationship between BIS and PRx. This suggests a potential "optimal" depth of sedation where cerebrovascular reactivity is the most intact. CONCLUSIONS This small series highlights the potential impact of depth of sedation on cerebrovascular reactivity in TBI. It suggests that there may be an individual optimal depth of sedation, so as to optimize cerebrovascular reactivity. Further study of objective depth of sedation and its impact on cerebrovascular physiology in TBI is required.
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Wellard J, Kuwabara M, Adelson PD, Appavu B. Physiologic Characteristics of Hyperosmolar Therapy After Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. Front Neurol 2021; 12:662089. [PMID: 33959090 PMCID: PMC8093760 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2021.662089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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All work was performed at the Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital. Objective: Investigate injury severity, neuroimaging, physiology, and outcomes with bolus hyperosmolar therapy (HT) of 3% hypertonic saline or mannitol. Methods: Retrospective cohort analysis was performed. Physiologic variables included intracranial pressure (ICP), arterial blood pressure (ABP), and heart rate (HR). Volume-pressure compensation (PVC) indices included ICP pulse amplitude (AMP) and correlation of AMP and ICP (RAP). Cerebrovascular pressure reactivity (CVPR) indices included pressure reactivity index (PRx), pulse amplitude index (PAx), wavelet PRx (wPRx), and correlation of AMP and cerebral perfusion pressure (RAC). Heart rate variability (HRV) indices included heart rate standard deviation (HRsd), heart rate root mean square of successive differences (HRrmssd) and low-high frequency ratio (LHF). Outcome was assessed using Glasgow Outcomes Scale Extended Pediatrics, 12-months post-injury. Generalized estimating equations was applied to investigate associations of physiologic changes and pre-treatment indices with HT efficacy. Repeated measures analysis of variance was applied to investigate changes after HT without intracranial hypertension (ICH). Wilcoxon rank-sum was applied to investigate HT responsiveness with age, injury severity, neuroimaging, and outcomes. Results: Thirty children received bolus HT. ICH reduction after HT was associated with reduced ICP (p = 0.0064), ABP (p = 0.0126), PRx (p = 0.0063), increased HRsd (p = 0.0408), and decreased pretreatment RAC (p = 0.0115) and wPRx (p = 0.0072). HT-responsive patients were older and had improved outcomes (p = 0.0394). HT without ICH was associated with increased ICP (P < 0.0001) and ABP (P < 0.0001), increases in all HRV indices and decreases in all PVC indices. Conclusion: After pediatric TBI, efficacious HT is associated with decreased ICP and ABP, pre-treatment indices suggesting efficient CVPR, and potentially improved outcomes.
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- Jeffrey Wellard
- University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, United States
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, United States.,Department of Radiology, Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, United States
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, United States.,Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, United States
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, United States.,Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, United States
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Appavu B, Foldes S, Burrows BT, Jacobson A, Abruzzo T, Boerwinkle V, Willyerd A, Mangum T, Gunnala V, Marku I, Adelson PD. Multimodal Assessment of Cerebral Autoregulation and Autonomic Function After Pediatric Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation Rupture. Neurocrit Care 2021; 34:537-546. [PMID: 32748209 DOI: 10.1007/s12028-020-01058-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Management after cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) rupture aims toward preventing hemorrhagic expansion while maintaining cerebral perfusion to avoid secondary injury. We investigated associations of model-based indices of cerebral autoregulation (CA) and autonomic function (AF) with outcomes after pediatric cerebral AVM rupture. METHODS Multimodal neurologic monitoring data from the initial 3 days after cerebral AVM rupture were retrospectively analyzed in children (< 18 years). AF indices included standard deviation of heart rate (HRsd), root-mean-square of successive differences in heart rate (HRrmssd), low-high frequency ratio (LHF), and baroreflex sensitivity (BRS). CA indices include pressure reactivity index (PRx), wavelet pressure reactivity indices (wPRx and wPRx-thr), pulse amplitude index (PAx), and correlation coefficient between intracranial pressure pulse amplitude and cerebral perfusion pressure (RAC). Percent time of cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) below lower limits of autoregulation (LLA) was also computed for each CA index. Primary outcomes were determined using Pediatric Glasgow Outcome Score Extended-Pediatrics (GOSE-PEDs) at 12 months and acquired epilepsy. Association of biomarkers with outcomes was investigated using linear regression, Wilcoxon signed-rank, or Chi-square. RESULTS Fourteen children were analyzed. Lower AF indices were associated with poor outcomes (BRS [p = 0.04], HRsd [p = 0.04], and HRrmssd [p = 0.00]; and acquired epilepsy (LHF [p = 0.027]). Higher CA indices were associated with poor outcomes (PRx [p = 0.00], wPRx [p = 0.00], and wPRx-thr [p = 0.01]), and acquired epilepsy (PRx [p = 0.02] and wPRx [p = 0.00]). Increased time below LLA was associated with poor outcome (percent time below LLA based on PRx [p = 0.00], PAx [p = 0.04], wPRx-thr [p = 0.03], and RAC [p = 0.01]; and acquired epilepsy (PRx [p = 0.00], PAx [p = 0.00], wPRx-thr [p = 0.03], and RAC [p = 0.01]). CONCLUSIONS After pediatric cerebral AVM rupture, poor outcomes are associated with AF and CA when applying various neurophysiologic model-based indices. Prospective work is needed to assess these indices of CA and AF in clinical decision support.
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- Brian Appavu
- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd Floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA.
- Department of Child Health, University Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA.
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd Floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
- Department of Child Health, University Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd Floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd Floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd Floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
- Department of Child Health, University Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd Floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
- Department of Child Health, University Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd Floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
- Department of Child Health, University Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd Floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
- Department of Child Health, University Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd Floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
- Department of Child Health, University Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd Floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
- Department of Child Health, University Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd Floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
- Department of Child Health, University Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA
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Appavu B, Burrows BT, Nickoles T, Boerwinkle V, Willyerd A, Gunnala V, Mangum T, Marku I, Adelson PD. Implementation of Multimodality Neurologic Monitoring Reporting in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Management. Neurocrit Care 2021; 35:3-15. [PMID: 33791948 PMCID: PMC8012079 DOI: 10.1007/s12028-021-01190-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Background/Objective Multimodality neurologic monitoring (MMM) is an emerging technique for management of traumatic brain injury (TBI). An increasing array of MMM-derived biomarkers now exist that are associated with injury severity and functional outcomes after TBI. A standardized MMM reporting process has not been well described, and a paucity of evidence exists relating MMM reporting in TBI management with functional outcomes or adverse events. Methods Prospective implementation of standardized MMM reporting at a single pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is described that included monitoring of intracranial pressure (ICP), cerebral oxygenation and electroencephalography (EEG). The incidence of clinical decisions made using MMM reporting is described, including timing of neuroimaging, ICP monitoring discontinuation, use of paralytic, hyperosmolar and pentobarbital therapies, neurosurgical interventions, ventilator and CPP adjustments and neurologic prognostication discussions. Retrospective analysis was performed on the association of MMM reporting with initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and Pediatric Risk of Mortality III (PRISM III) scores, duration of total hospitalization and PICU hospitalization, duration of mechanical ventilation and invasive ICP monitoring, inpatient complications, time with ICP > 20 mmHg, time with cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) < 40 mmHg and 12-month Glasgow Outcome Scale—Extended Pediatrics (GOSE-Peds) scores. Association of outcomes with MMM reporting was investigated using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test or Fisher’s exact test, as appropriate. Results Eighty-five children with TBI underwent MMM over 6 years, among which 18 underwent daily MMM reporting over a 21-month period. Clinical decision-making influenced by MMM reporting included timing of neuroimaging (100.0%), ICP monitoring discontinuation (100.0%), timing of extubation trials of surviving patients (100.0%), body repositioning (11.1%), paralytic therapy (16.7%), hyperosmolar therapy (22.2%), pentobarbital therapy (33.3%), provocative cerebral autoregulation testing (16.7%), adjustments in CPP thresholds (16.7%), adjustments in PaCO2 thresholds (11.1%), neurosurgical interventions (16.7%) and neurologic prognostication discussions (11.1%). The implementation of MMM reporting was associated with a reduction in ICP monitoring duration (p = 0.0017) and mechanical ventilator duration (p = 0.0018). No significant differences were observed in initial GCS or PRISM III scores, total hospitalization length, PICU hospitalization length, total complications, time with ICP > 20 mmHg, time with CPP < 40 mmHg, use of tier 2 therapy, or 12-month GOS-E Peds scores. Conclusion Implementation of MMM reporting in pediatric TBI management is feasible and can be impactful in tailoring clinical decisions. Prospective work is needed to understand the impact of MMM and MMM reporting systems on functional outcomes and clinical care efficacy. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12028-021-01190-8.
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- Brian Appavu
- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute At Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA.
- Department of Child Health, University Arizona College of Medicine -Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA.
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute At Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute At Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
- Department of Child Health, University Arizona College of Medicine -Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute At Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
- Department of Child Health, University Arizona College of Medicine -Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute At Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
- Department of Child Health, University Arizona College of Medicine -Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute At Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1919 E. Thomas Road, Ambulatory Building B, 3rd floor, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA
- Department of Child Health, University Arizona College of Medicine -Phoenix, 550 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA
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Svedung Wettervik TM, Lewén A, Enblad P. Fine Tuning of Traumatic Brain Injury Management in Neurointensive Care-Indicative Observations and Future Perspectives. Front Neurol 2021; 12:638132. [PMID: 33716941 PMCID: PMC7943830 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2021.638132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Neurointensive care (NIC) has contributed to great improvements in clinical outcomes for patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) by preventing, detecting, and treating secondary insults and thereby reducing secondary brain injury. Traditional NIC management has mainly focused on generally applicable escalated treatment protocols to avoid high intracranial pressure (ICP) and to keep the cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) at sufficiently high levels. However, TBI is a very heterogeneous disease regarding the type of injury, age, comorbidity, secondary injury mechanisms, etc. In recent years, the introduction of multimodality monitoring, including, e.g., pressure autoregulation, brain tissue oxygenation, and cerebral energy metabolism, in addition to ICP and CPP, has increased the understanding of the complex pathophysiology and the physiological effects of treatments in this condition. In this article, we will present some potential future approaches for more individualized patient management and fine-tuning of NIC, taking advantage of multimodal monitoring to further improve outcome after severe TBI.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Section of Neurosurgery, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Neuroscience, Section of Neurosurgery, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Zeiler FA. Advanced Bio-signal Analytics for Continuous Bedside Monitoring of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: The Future. Neurocrit Care 2021; 34:375-378. [PMID: 33403580 DOI: 10.1007/s12028-020-01170-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 11/24/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Frederick A Zeiler
- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. .,Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. .,Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. .,Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. .,Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Froese L, Dian J, Batson C, Gomez A, Alarifi N, Unger B, Zeiler FA. The Impact of Vasopressor and Sedative Agents on Cerebrovascular Reactivity and Compensatory Reserve in Traumatic Brain Injury: An Exploratory Analysis. Neurotrauma Rep 2020; 1:157-168. [PMID: 33274344 PMCID: PMC7703494 DOI: 10.1089/neur.2020.0028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The impact of vasopressor and sedative drugs on cerebrovascular reactivity in traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of changes of doses of commonly administered sedation (i.e., propofol, fentanyl, and ketamine) and vasopressor agents (i.e., norepinephrine [NE], phenylephrine [PE], and vasopressin[VSP]) on cerebrovascular reactivity and compensatory reserve in patients with moderate/severe TBI. Using the Winnipeg Acute TBI Database, we identified 38 patients with more than 1000 distinct changes of infusion rates and more than 500 h of paired drug infusion/physiology data. Cerebrovascular reactivity was assessed using pressure reactivity index (PRx) and cerebral compensatory reserve was assessed using RAP (the correlation [R] between pulse amplitude of intracranial pressure [ICP; A] and ICP [P]). We evaluated the data in two phases. First, we assessed the relationship between mean hourly dose of medication and its relation to both mean hourly index values, and time spent above a given index threshold. Second, we evaluated time-series data for each individual dose change per medication, assessing for a statistically significant change in PRx and RAP metrics. The results of the analysis confirmed that, overall, the mean hourly dose of sedative (propofol, fentanyl, and ketamine) and vasopressor (NE, PE, and VSP) agents does not impact hourly cerebrovascular reactivity or compensatory reserve measures. Similarly, incremental dose changes in these medications in general do not lead to significant changes in cerebrovascular reactivity or compensatory reserve. For propofol with incremental dose increases, in situations where PRx is intact (i.e., PRx <0 prior), a statistically significant increase in PRx was seen. However, this may not indicate deteriorating cerebrovascular reactivity as the final PRx (∼0.05) may still be considered to be intact cerebrovascular reactivity. As such, this finding with regards to propofol remains “weak.” This study indicates that commonly administered sedative and vasopressor agents with incremental dosing changes have no clinically significant influence on cerebrovascular reactivity or compensatory reserve in TBI. These results should be considered preliminary, requiring further investigation.
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- Logan Froese
- Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Department of Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Section of Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Department of Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Comparison of Pressure Reactivity Index and Mean Velocity Index to Evaluate Cerebrovascular Reactivity During Induced Arterial Blood Pressure Variations in Severe Brain Injury. Neurocrit Care 2020; 34:974-982. [PMID: 33006033 DOI: 10.1007/s12028-020-01092-1] [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: 05/02/2020] [Accepted: 08/28/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To compare the assessment of cerebral autoregulation by cerebrovascular reactivity indices based on intracranial pressure (Pressure Reactivity Index, PRx) and on transcranial Doppler (Mean Velocity Index, Mx) during controlled variations of arterial blood pressure in severe brain injury. Primary outcome was the agreement between both cerebrovascular reactivity indices measured by the Bland-and-Altman method. Secondary outcomes were the association of cerebrovascular reactivity indices with arterial blood pressure variation, and the comparison of optimal cerebral perfusion pressures determined by both indices. METHODS All consecutive comatose (Glasgow Coma Scale < 8) patients from the surgical intensive care unit of Bicetre Hospital who had an acute brain injury on computerized tomography and needed vasopressor support were prospectively included. Step-by-step arterial pressure variations using vasopressors were performed to compare PRx and Mx and to calculate optimal cerebral perfusion pressure (CPPopt). MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS 15 patients were included. Mean difference between both indices measured by Bland-and-Altman plot was - 0.07 (IC 95% [- 1.02 to 0.87]). Mx was significantly associated with arterial pressure variation (one-way ANOVA test, p = 0.007), whereas PRx was not (p = 0.44). Optimal cerebral perfusion pressure calculated with PRx and Mx was respectively 11 and 15mmHg higher than the mean perfusion pressure prescribed. Optimal cerebral perfusion pressure calculation was possible in all cases. CONCLUSIONS Cerebral vasoreactivity indices calculated with intracranial pressure or transcranial Doppler show only moderate agreement. Both indices nonetheless suggest substantially higher optimal cerebral perfusion pressure than those currently provided by international guidelines.
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Klein SP, Fieuws S, Meyfroidt G, Depreitere B. Effects of Norepinephrine, Propofol, and Hemoglobin Concentration on Dynamic Measurements of Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Acute Brain Injury. J Neurotrauma 2020; 38:506-512. [PMID: 32611275 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2020.7160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Effects of treatment-associated variables on cerebrovascular autoregulation (CA) in acute brain injury patients remain unclear. As deficient CA is associated with worse outcomes and ideas about CA-steered management are emerging, this question is relevant. We investigated effects of norepinephrine and propofol infusion rates and hemoglobin concentration on dynamic measurements of cerebrovascular reactivity as surrogate for CA. A retrospective analysis of 91 traumatic brain injury (TBI) and 13 stroke patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Leuven University Hospitals was performed. Low-resolution autoregulation index (LAx) and high-frequency pressure reactivity index (PRx) were calculated as measurements of cerebrovascular reactivity. Data was binned into 5-, 15-, and 60-min intervals. Bivariate time-series analysis using lagged cross-correlations were calculated after pre-whitening and differencing. Linear mixed models evaluated effects of age, gender, cardiovascular risk, brain comorbidity, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), pupil reactivity, and type of injury. Median dose of norepinephrine, propofol and hemoglobin concentration was 7.8 μg/kg/h (Q1 3.6-Q3 13.8), 3 mg/kg/h (Q1 1.9-Q3 4.3), and 9.2 g·dL-1 (Q1 8.2-Q3 10.5), respectively. Mean cross-correlations for 24 lags were close to zero and not significant for all variables. No significant differences as function of age, gender, cardiovascular risk, brain comorbidity, GCS, pupil reactivity, and type of injury were found. Dynamic intracranial pressure-based measurements of cerebrovascular reactivity in acute brain injured patients are not affected by gradually adjusted norepinephrine or propofol infusion rates or slow changes in hemoglobin concentration within the typical ranges during ICU admission. Future trials on cerebrovascular reactivity-steered management and treatment of CA impairment may not have to take these variables into account.
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- Samuel P Klein
- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Leuven Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics Centre (L-BioStat), KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Froese L, Dian J, Gomez A, Unger B, Zeiler FA. Cerebrovascular Response to Phenylephrine in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Scoping Systematic Review of the Human and Animal Literature. Neurotrauma Rep 2020; 1:46-62. [PMID: 34223530 PMCID: PMC8240891 DOI: 10.1089/neur.2020.0008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Intravenous phenylephrine (PE) is utilized commonly in critical care for cardiovascular support. Its impact on the cerebrovasculature is unclear and its use may have important implications during states of critical neurological illness. The aim of this study was to perform a scoping review of the literature on the cerebrovascular/cerebral blood flow (CBF) effects of PE in traumatic brain injury (TBI), evaluating both animal models and human studies. We searched MEDLINE, BIOSIS, EMBASE, Global Health, SCOPUS, and the Cochrane Library from inception to January 2020. We identified 12 studies with various animal models and 4 studies in humans with varying TBI pathology. There was a trend toward a consistent increase in mean arterial pressure (MAP) by the injection of PE systemically, and by proxy, an increase of the cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP). There was a consistent constriction of cerebral vessels by PE reported in the small number of studies documenting such a response. However, the heterogeneity of the literature on the CBF/cerebral blood volume (CBV) response makes the strength of the conclusions on PE limited. Studies were heterogeneous in design and had significant limitations, with most failing to adjust for confounding factors in cerebrovascular/CBF response. This review highlights the significant knowledge gap on the cerebrovascular/CBF effects of PE administration in TBI, calling for further study on the impact of PE on the cerebrovasculature both in vivo and in experimental settings.
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- Logan Froese
- Biomedical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Department of Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Center on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Division of Anesthesia, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Hasen M, Gomez A, Froese L, Dian J, Raj R, Thelin EP, Zeiler FA. Alternative continuous intracranial pressure-derived cerebrovascular reactivity metrics in traumatic brain injury: a scoping overview. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2020; 162:1647-1662. [PMID: 32385635 DOI: 10.1007/s00701-020-04378-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 04/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Pressure reactivity index (PRx) has emerged as a means to continuously monitor cerebrovascular reactivity in traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, other intracranial pressure (ICP)-based continuous metrics exist, and may have advantages over PRx. The goal of this study was to perform a scoping overview of the literature on non-PRx ICP-based continuous cerebrovascular reactivity metrics in adult TBI. METHODS We searched MEDLINE, BIOSIS, EMBASE, Global Health, SCOPUS, and Cochrane Library from inception to December 2019. Using a two-stage filtering of title/abstract, and then full manuscript, we identified pertinent articles. Data was abstracted to tables and each technique summarized, including pulse amplitude index (PAx), correlation between pulse amplitude of ICP and cerebral perfusion pressure (RAC), PRx55-15, and low-resolution metrics LAx and L-PRx. RESULTS A total of 23 articles met the inclusion criteria, with the vast majority being retrospective in nature and based out of European centers. Sixteen articles focused on high-resolution metrics PAx, RAC, and PRx55-15, with 6 articles focusing on LAx and L-PRx. PAx may have a role in low ICP situations, where it appears to perform superior to PRx. RAC displays similar behavior to PRx, with a trend to stronger associations with favorable/unfavorable outcome at 6 months, and stronger parabolic relationship with CPP. PRx55-15 provides a focused assessment on the vasogenic frequency range associated with cerebral autoregulation, with preliminary data supporting a strong association with outcome in TBI. LAx and L-PRx display varying associations with 6-month outcome in TBI, depending on the window length of calculation, with shorter windows demonstrating stronger correlations with classical PRx. CONCLUSIONS Non-PRx continuous ICP-based cerebrovascular reactivity metrics can be split into high-resolution and low-resolution measures. High-resolution indices include PAx, RAC, and PRx55-15, while low-resolution indices include L-PRx and LAx. The true role for these metrics beyond classic PRx remains unclear. Each displays situations where it may prove superior over PRx, given limitations with this currently widely accepted measure. Much future investigation into each of these alternative metrics is required prior to adoption into the clinical monitoring armamentarium in adult TBI.
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- Mohammed Hasen
- Section of Neurosurgery, Division of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Department of Neurosurgery, King Fahad University Hospital, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Division of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Division of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Division of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
- Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
- Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
- Department of Medicine, Division of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Froese L, Batson C, Gomez A, Dian J, Zeiler FA. The Limited Impact of Current Therapeutic Interventions on Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Narrative Overview. Neurocrit Care 2020; 34:325-335. [PMID: 32468328 DOI: 10.1007/s12028-020-01003-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Current intensive care unit (ICU) treatment strategies for traumatic brain injury (TBI) care focus on intracranial pressure (ICP)- and cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP)-directed therapeutics, dictated by guidelines. Impaired cerebrovascular reactivity in moderate/severe TBI is emerging as a major associate with poor outcome and appears to dominate the landscape of physiologic derangement over the course of a patient's ICU stay. Within this article, we review the literature on the known drivers of impaired cerebrovascular reactivity in adult TBI, highlight the current knowledge surrounding the impact of guideline treatment strategies on continuously monitored cerebrovascular reactivity, and discuss current treatment paradigms for impaired reactivity. Finally, we touch on the areas of future research, as we strive to develop specific therapeutics for impaired cerebrovascular reactivity in TBI. There exists limited literature to suggest advanced age, intracranial injury patterns of diffuse injury, and sustained ICP elevations may drive impaired cerebrovascular reactivity. To date, the literature suggests there is a limited impact of such ICP/CPP guideline-based therapies on cerebrovascular reactivity, with large portions of a given patients ICU period spent with impaired cerebrovascular reactivity. Emerging treatment paradigms focus on the targeting individualized CPP and ICP thresholds based on cerebrovascular reactivity, without directly targeting the pathways involved in its dysfunction. Further work involved in uncovering the molecular pathways involved in impaired cerebrovascular reactivity is required, so that we can develop therapeutics directed at its prevention and treatment.
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- Logan Froese
- Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
- Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
- Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
- Division of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Zeiler FA, Cabeleira M, Hutchinson PJ, Stocchetti N, Czosnyka M, Smielewski P, Ercole A. Evaluation of the relationship between slow-waves of intracranial pressure, mean arterial pressure and brain tissue oxygen in TBI: a CENTER-TBI exploratory analysis. J Clin Monit Comput 2020; 35:711-722. [PMID: 32418148 PMCID: PMC8286934 DOI: 10.1007/s10877-020-00527-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 05/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Brain tissue oxygen (PbtO2) monitoring in traumatic brain injury (TBI) has demonstrated strong associations with global outcome. Additionally, PbtO2 signals have been used to derive indices thought to be associated with cerebrovascular reactivity in TBI. However, their true relationship to slow-wave vasogenic fluctuations associated with cerebral autoregulation remains unclear. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between slow-wave fluctuations of intracranial pressure (ICP), mean arterial pressure (MAP) and PbtO2 over time. Using the Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in Traumatic Brain Injury (CENTER-TBI) high resolution ICU sub-study cohort, we evaluated those patients with recorded high-frequency digital intra-parenchymal ICP and PbtO2 monitoring data of a minimum of 6 h in duration. Digital physiologic signals were processed for ICP, MAP, and PbtO2 slow-waves using a moving average filter to decimate the high-frequency signal. The first 5 days of recording were analyzed. The relationship between ICP, MAP and PbtO2 slow-waves over time were assessed using autoregressive integrative moving average (ARIMA) and vector autoregressive integrative moving average (VARIMA) modelling, as well as Granger causality testing. A total of 47 patients were included. The ARIMA structure of ICP and MAP were similar in time, where PbtO2 displayed different optimal structure. VARIMA modelling and IRF plots confirmed the strong directional relationship between MAP and ICP, demonstrating an ICP response to MAP impulse. PbtO2 slow-waves, however, failed to demonstrate a definite response to ICP and MAP slow-wave impulses. These results raise questions as to the utility of PbtO2 in the derivation of cerebrovascular reactivity measures in TBI. There is a reproducible relationship between slow-wave fluctuations of ICP and MAP, as demonstrated across various time-series analytic techniques. PbtO2 does not appear to reliably respond in time to slow-wave fluctuations in MAP, as demonstrated on various VARIMA models across all patients. These findings suggest that PbtO2 should not be utilized in the derivation of cerebrovascular reactivity metrics in TBI, as it does not appear to be responsive to changes in MAP in the slow-waves. These findings corroborate previous results regarding PbtO2 based cerebrovascular reactivity indices.
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- Frederick A Zeiler
- Division of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. .,Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3A 1R9, Canada. .,Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. .,Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. .,Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Neuro ICU Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.,Department of Physiopathology and Transplantation, Milan University, Milan, Italy
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK.,Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Division of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Zeiler FA, Mathieu F, Monteiro M, Glocker B, Ercole A, Beqiri E, Cabeleira M, Stocchetti N, Smielewski P, Czosnyka M, Newcombe V, Menon DK. Diffuse Intracranial Injury Patterns Are Associated with Impaired Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Adult Traumatic Brain Injury: A CENTER-TBI Validation Study. J Neurotrauma 2020; 37:1597-1608. [PMID: 32164482 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2019.6959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Recent single-center retrospective analysis displayed the association between admission computed tomography (CT) markers of diffuse intracranial injury and worse cerebrovascular reactivity. The goal of this study was to further explore these associations using the prospective multi-center Collaborative European Neurotrauma Effectiveness Research in Traumatic Brain Injury (CENTER-TBI) high-resolution intensive care unit (HR ICU) data set. Using the CENTER-TBI HR ICU sub-study cohort, we evaluated those patients with both archived high-frequency digital physiology (100 Hz or higher) and the presence of a digital admission CT scan. Physiological signals were processed for pressure reactivity index (PRx) and both the percent (%) time above defined PRx thresholds and mean hourly dose above threshold. Admission CT injury scores were obtained from the database. Quantitative contusion, edema, intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), and extra-axial lesion volumes were obtained via semi-automated segmentation. Comparison between admission CT characteristics and PRx metrics was conducted using Mann-U, Jonckheere-Terpstra testing, with a combination of univariate linear and logistic regression techniques. A total of 165 patients were included. Cisternal compression and high admission Rotterdam and Helsinki CT scores, and Marshall CT diffuse injury sub-scores were associated with increased percent (%) time and hourly dose above PRx threshold of 0, +0.25, and +0.35 (p < 0.02 for all). Logistic regression analysis displayed an association between deep peri-contusional edema and mean PRx above a threshold of +0.25. These results suggest that diffuse injury patterns, consistent with acceleration/deceleration forces, are associated with impaired cerebrovascular reactivity. Diffuse admission intracranial injury patterns appear to be consistently associated with impaired cerebrovascular reactivity, as measured through PRx. This is in keeping with the previous single-center retrospective literature on the topic. This study provides multi-center validation for those results, and provides preliminary data to support potential risk stratification for impaired cerebrovascular reactivity based on injury pattern.
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- Frederick A Zeiler
- Division of Anesthesia, Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Department of Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Division of Anesthesia, Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Biomedical Image Analysis Group, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Biomedical Image Analysis Group, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Anesthesia, Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Neuro ICU Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.,Department of Physiopathology and Transplantation, Milan University, Milan, Italy
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Division of Anesthesia, Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Division of Anesthesia, Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Zeiler FA, Ercole A, Czosnyka M, Smielewski P, Hawryluk G, Hutchinson PJA, Menon DK, Aries M. Continuous cerebrovascular reactivity monitoring in moderate/severe traumatic brain injury: a narrative review of advances in neurocritical care. Br J Anaesth 2020; 124:440-453. [PMID: 31983411 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2019.11.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2019] [Revised: 11/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Impaired cerebrovascular reactivity in adult moderate and severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is known to be associated with worse global outcome at 6-12 months. As technology has improved over the past decades, monitoring of cerebrovascular reactivity has shifted from intermittent measures, to experimentally validated continuously updating indices at the bedside. Such advances have led to the exploration of individualised physiologic targets in adult TBI management, such as optimal cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) values, or CPP limits in which vascular reactivity is relatively intact. These targets have been shown to have a stronger association with outcome compared with existing consensus-based guideline thresholds in severe TBI care. This has sparked ongoing prospective trials of such personalised medicine approaches in adult TBI. In this narrative review paper, we focus on the concept of cerebral autoregulation, proposed mechanisms of control and methods of continuous monitoring used in TBI. We highlight multimodal cranial monitoring approaches for continuous cerebrovascular reactivity assessment, physiologic and neuroimaging correlates, and associations with outcome. Finally, we explore the recent 'state-of-the-art' advances in personalised physiologic targets based on continuous cerebrovascular reactivity monitoring, their benefits, and implications for future avenues of research in TBI.
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- Frederick A Zeiler
- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Winnipeg, Canada; Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Winnipeg, Canada; Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
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- Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Section of Brain Physics, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Section of Brain Physics, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Intensive Care, Maastricht UMC, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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Zeiler FA, Aries M, Cabeleira M, van Essen TA, Stocchetti N, Menon DK, Timofeev I, Czosnyka M, Smielewski P, Hutchinson P, Ercole A. Statistical Cerebrovascular Reactivity Signal Properties after Secondary Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury: A CENTER-TBI Pilot Analysis. J Neurotrauma 2020; 37:1306-1314. [PMID: 31950876 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2019.6726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Decompressive craniectomy (DC) in traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been suggested to influence cerebrovascular reactivity. We aimed to determine if the statistical properties of vascular reactivity metrics and slow-wave relationships were impacted after DC, as such information would allow us to comment on whether vascular reactivity monitoring remains reliable after craniectomy. Using the CENTER-TBI High Resolution Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Sub-Study cohort, we selected those secondary DC patients with high-frequency physiological data for both at least 24 h pre-DC, and more than 48 h post-DC. Data for all physiology measures were separated into the 24 h pre-DC, the first 48 h post-DC, and beyond 48 h post-DC. We produced slow-wave data sheets for intracranial pressure (ICP) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) per patient. We also derived a Pressure Reactivity Index (PRx) as a continuous cerebrovascular reactivity metric updated every minute. The time-series behavior of the PRx was modeled for each time period per patient. Finally, the relationship between ICP and MAP during these three time periods was assessed using time-series vector autoregressive integrative moving average (VARIMA) models, impulse response function (IRF) plots, and Granger causality testing. Ten patients were included in this study. Mean PRx and proportion of time above PRx thresholds were not affected by craniectomy. Similarly, PRx time-series structure was not affected by DC, when assessed in each individual patient. This was confirmed with Granger causality testing, and VARIMA IRF plotting for the MAP/ICP slow-wave relationship. PRx metrics and statistical time-series behavior appear not to be substantially influenced by DC. Similarly, there is little change in the relationship between slow waves of ICP and MAP before and after DC. This may suggest that cerebrovascular reactivity monitoring in the setting of DC may still provide valuable information regarding autoregulation.
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- Frederick A Zeiler
- Division of Anesthesia, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Intensive Care, Maastricht UMC, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- University Neurosurgical Center Holland, Department of Neurosurgery, Leiden University Medical Center and Haaglanden Medical Center, Leiden and The Hague, The Netherlands
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- Neuro ICU Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.,Department of Physiopathology and Transplantation, Milan University, Milan, Italy
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- Division of Anesthesia, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Division of Anesthesia, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Cerebral autoregulatory dysfunction after traumatic brain injury (TBI) is strongly linked to poor global outcome in patients at 6 months after injury. However, our understanding of the drivers of this dysfunction is limited. Genetic variation among individuals within a population gives rise to single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that have the potential to influence a given patient's cerebrovascular response to an injury. Associations have been reported between a variety of genetic polymorphisms and global outcome in patients with TBI, but few studies have explored the association between genetic variants and cerebrovascular function after injury. In this Review, we explore polymorphisms that might play an important part in cerebral autoregulatory capacity after TBI. We outline a variety of SNPs, their biological substrates and their potential role in mediating cerebrovascular reactivity. A number of candidate polymorphisms exist in genes that are involved in myogenic, endothelial, metabolic and neurogenic vascular responses to injury. Furthermore, polymorphisms in genes involved in inflammation, the central autonomic response and cortical spreading depression might drive cerebrovascular reactivity. Identification of candidate genes involved in cerebral autoregulation after TBI provides a platform and rationale for further prospective investigation of the link between genetic polymorphisms and autoregulatory function.
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Gomez A, Dian J, Zeiler FA. Continuous and entirely non-invasive method for cerebrovascular reactivity assessment: technique and implications. J Clin Monit Comput 2020; 35:307-315. [PMID: 31989415 DOI: 10.1007/s10877-020-00472-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 01/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Continuous cerebrovascular reactivity assessment in traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been limited by the need for invasive monitoring of either cerebral physiology or arterial blood pressure (ABP). This restricts the application of continuous measures to the acute phase of care, typically in the intensive care unit. It remains unknown if ongoing impairment of cerebrovascular reactivity occurs in the subacute and long-term phase, and if it drives ongoing morbidity in TBI. We describe an entirely non-invasive method for continuous assessment of cerebrovascular reactivity. We describe the technique for entirely non-invasive continuous assessment of cerebrovascular reactivity utilizing near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and robotic transcranial Doppler (rTCD) technology, with details provided for NIRS. Recent advances in continuous high-frequency non-invasive ABP measurement, combined with NIRS or rTCD, can be employed to derive continuous and entirely non-invasive cerebrovascular reactivity metrics. Such non-invasive measures can be obtained during any aspect of patient care post-TBI, and even during outpatient follow-up, avoiding classical intermittent techniques and costly neuroimaging based metrics obtained only at specialized centers. This combination of technology and signal analytic techniques creates avenues for future investigation of the long-term consequences of cerebrovascular reactivity, integrating high-frequency non-invasive cerebral physiology, neuroimaging, proteomics and clinical phenotype at various stages post-injury.
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- A Gomez
- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. .,Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. .,Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. .,Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Comparison of high versus low frequency cerebral physiology for cerebrovascular reactivity assessment in traumatic brain injury: a multi-center pilot study. J Clin Monit Comput 2019; 34:971-994. [PMID: 31573056 PMCID: PMC7447671 DOI: 10.1007/s10877-019-00392-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2019] [Accepted: 09/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Current accepted cerebrovascular reactivity indices suffer from the need of high frequency data capture and export for post-acquisition processing. The role for minute-by-minute data in cerebrovascular reactivity monitoring remains uncertain. The goal was to explore the statistical time-series relationships between intra-cranial pressure (ICP), mean arterial pressure (MAP) and pressure reactivity index (PRx) using both 10-s and minute data update frequency in TBI. Prospective data from 31 patients from 3 centers with moderate/severe TBI and high-frequency archived physiology were reviewed. Both 10-s by 10-s and minute-by-minute mean values were derived for ICP and MAP for each patient. Similarly, PRx was derived using 30 consecutive 10-s data points, updated every minute. While long-PRx (L-PRx) was derived via similar methodology using minute-by-minute data, with L-PRx derived using various window lengths (5, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 60 min; denoted L-PRx_5, etc.). Time-series autoregressive integrative moving average (ARIMA) and vector autoregressive integrative moving average (VARIMA) models were created to analyze the relationship of these parameters over time. ARIMA modelling, Granger causality testing and VARIMA impulse response function (IRF) plotting demonstrated that similar information is carried in minute mean ICP and MAP data, compared to 10-s mean slow-wave ICP and MAP data. Shorter window L-PRx variants, such as L-PRx_5, appear to have a similar ARIMA structure, have a linear association with PRx and display moderate-to-strong correlations (r ~ 0.700, p < 0.0001 for each patient). Thus, these particular L-PRx variants appear closest in nature to standard PRx. ICP and MAP derived via 10-s or minute based averaging display similar statistical time-series structure and co-variance patterns. PRx and L-PRx based on shorter windows also behave similarly over time. These results imply certain L-PRx variants may carry similar information to PRx in TBI.
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Patient-specific ICP Epidemiologic Thresholds in Adult Traumatic Brain Injury: A CENTER-TBI Validation Study. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol 2019; 33:28-38. [PMID: 31219937 DOI: 10.1097/ana.0000000000000616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Patient-specific epidemiologic intracranial pressure (ICP) thresholds in adult traumatic brain injury (TBI) have emerged, using the relationship between pressure reactivity index (PRx) and ICP, displaying stronger association with outcome over existing guideline thresholds. The goal of this study was to explore this relationship in a multi-center cohort in order to confirm the previous finding. METHODS Using the Collaborative European Neuro Trauma Effectiveness Research in TBI (CENTER-TBI) high-resolution intensive care unit cohort, we derived individualized epidemiologic ICP thresholds for each patient using the relationship between PRx and ICP. Mean hourly dose of ICP was calculated for every patient for the following thresholds: 20, 22 mm Hg and the patient's individual ICP threshold. Univariate logistic regression models were created comparing mean hourly dose of ICP above thresholds to dichotomized outcome at 6 to 12 months, based on Glasgow Outcome Score-Extended (GOSE) (alive/dead-GOSE≥2/GOSE=1; favorable/unfavorable-GOSE 5 to 8/GOSE 1 to 4, respectively). RESULTS Individual thresholds were identified in 65.3% of patients (n=128), in keeping with previous results (23.0±11.8 mm Hg [interquartile range: 14.9 to 29.8 mm Hg]). Mean hourly dose of ICP above individual threshold provides superior discrimination (area under the receiver operating curve [AUC]=0.678, P=0.029) over mean hourly dose above 20 mm Hg (AUC=0.509, P=0.03) or above 22 mm Hg (AUC=0.492, P=0.035) on univariate analysis for alive/dead outcome at 6 to 12 months. The AUC for mean hourly dose above individual threshold trends to higher values for favorable/unfavorable outcome, but fails to reach statistical significance (AUC=0.610, P=0.060). This was maintained when controlling for baseline admission characteristics. CONCLUSIONS Mean hourly dose of ICP above individual epidemiologic ICP threshold has stronger associations with mortality compared with the dose above Brain Trauma Foundation defined thresholds of 20 or 22 mm Hg, confirming prior findings. Further studies on patient-specific epidemiologic ICP thresholds are required.
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Zeiler FA, Ercole A, Cabeleira M, Zoerle T, Stocchetti N, Menon DK, Smielewski P, Czosnyka M. Univariate comparison of performance of different cerebrovascular reactivity indices for outcome association in adult TBI: a CENTER-TBI study. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2019; 161:1217-1227. [PMID: 30877472 PMCID: PMC6525666 DOI: 10.1007/s00701-019-03844-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2018] [Accepted: 02/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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BACKGROUND Monitoring cerebrovascular reactivity in adult traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been linked to global patient outcome. Three intra-cranial pressure (ICP)-derived indices have been described. It is unknown which index is superior for outcome association in TBI outside previous single-center evaluations. The goal of this study is to evaluate indices for 6- to 12-month outcome association using uniform data harvested in multiple centers. METHODS Using the prospectively collected data from the Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in TBI (CENTER-TBI) study, the following indices of cerebrovascular reactivity were derived: PRx (correlation between ICP and mean arterial pressure (MAP)), PAx (correlation between pulse amplitude of ICP (AMP) and MAP), and RAC (correlation between AMP and cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP)). Univariate logistic regression models were created to assess the association between vascular reactivity indices with global dichotomized outcome at 6 to 12 months, as assessed by Glasgow Outcome Score-Extended (GOSE). Models were compared via area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) and Delong's test. RESULTS Two separate patient groups from this cohort were assessed: the total population with available data (n = 204) and only those without decompressive craniectomy (n = 159), with identical results. PRx, PAx, and RAC perform similar in outcome association for both dichotomized outcomes, alive/dead and favorable/unfavorable, with RAC trending towards higher AUC values. There were statistically higher mean values for the index, % time above threshold, and hourly dose above threshold for each of PRx, PAx, and RAC in those patients with poor outcomes. CONCLUSIONS PRx, PAx, and RAC appear similar in their associations with 6- to 12-month outcome in moderate/severe adult TBI, with RAC showing tendency to achieve stronger associations. Further work is required to determine the role for each of these cerebrovascular indices in monitoring of TBI patients.
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- Frederick A. Zeiler
- Division of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3A 1R9 Canada
- Clinician Investigator Program, Rady Faculty of Health Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB Canada
- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Neuro ICU Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Neuro ICU Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
- Department of physiopathology and transplantation, Milan University, Milan, Italy
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- Division of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Neurosciences Critical Care Unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, England
- Queens’ College, Cambridge, England
- National Institute for Health Research, London, UK
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Brain Physics Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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Cerebral Perfusion Pressure Targets in Traumatic Brain Injury: The "Fuzzy" Spots Above Optimal Cerebral Perfusion Pressure. Can J Neurol Sci 2019; 45:721-722. [PMID: 30430967 DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2018.337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Zeiler FA, Smielewski P, Stevens A, Czosnyka M, Menon DK, Ercole A. Non-Invasive Pressure Reactivity Index Using Doppler Systolic Flow Parameters: A Pilot Analysis. J Neurotrauma 2018; 36:713-720. [PMID: 30091677 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2018.5987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The goal was to predict pressure reactivity index (PRx) using non-invasive transcranial Doppler (TCD) based indices of cerebrovascular reactivity, systolic flow index (Sx_a), and mean flow index (Mx_a). Continuous extended duration time series recordings of middle cerebral artery cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) were obtained using robotic TCD in parallel with direct intracranial pressure (ICP). PRx, Sx_a, and Mx_a were derived from high frequency archived signals. Using time-series techniques, autoregressive integrative moving average (ARIMA) structure of PRx was determined and embedded in the following linear mixed effects (LME) models of PRx: PRx ∼ Sx_a and PRx ∼ Sx_a + Mx_a. Using 80% of the recorded patient data, the LME models were created and trained. Model superiority was assessed via Akaike information criterion (AIC), Bayesian information criterion (BIC), and log-likelihood (LL). The superior two models were then used to predict PRx using the remaining 20% of the signal data. Predicted and observed PRx were compared via Pearson correlation, linear models, and Bland-Altman (BA) analysis. Ten patients had 3-4 h of continuous uninterrupted ICP and TCD data and were used for this pilot analysis. Optimal ARIMA structure for PRx was determined to be (2,0,2), and this was embedded in all LME models. The top two LME models of PRx were determined to be: PRx ∼ Sx_a and PRx ∼ Sx_a + Mx_a. Estimated and observed PRx values from both models were strongly correlated (r > 0.9; p < 0.0001 for both), with acceptable agreement on BA analysis. Predicted PRx using these two models was also moderately correlated with observed PRx, with acceptable agreement (r = 0.797, p = 0.006; r = 0.763, p = 0.011; respectively). With application of ARIMA and LME modeling, it is possible to predict PRx using non-invasive TCD measures. These are the first and as well as being preliminary attempts at doing so. Much further work is required.
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- Frederick A Zeiler
- 1 Divisions of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, United Kingdom .,2 Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba , Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada .,3 Clinician Investigator Program, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba , Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- 4 Divisions of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 1 Divisions of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 4 Divisions of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, United Kingdom .,5 Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw University of Technology , Warsaw, Poland
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- 1 Divisions of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 1 Divisions of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, United Kingdom
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A Promising New Noninvasive Measure of Cerebrovascular Reactivity: Not Yet Cerebral Autoregulation. Neurocrit Care 2018; 29:317-318. [PMID: 30097979 DOI: 10.1007/s12028-018-0592-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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