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ArticleChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2022

Monitoring of cerebrovascular pressure reactivity in children may predict neurologic outcome after hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.

Julian Zipfel, Dorothea Hegele, Konstantin Hockel, Susanne R Kerscher, Ellen Heimberg, Marek Czosnyka, Felix Neunhoeffer, Martin U Schuhmann

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Article in Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Cerebral autoregulation in pediatric and neonatal intensive care: A scoping review.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Julian ZipfelSection of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany. julian.zipfel@med.uni-tuebingen.de.ORCID 0000-0003-4725-713X
Dorothea HegeleSection of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany.
Konstantin HockelDepartment of Spine Surgery, Isar Klinikum, Sonnenstr. 24-26, Munich, Germany.
Susanne R KerscherSection of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany.
Ellen HeimbergPediatric Intensive Care Unit, University Children's Hospital of Tuebingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany.
Marek CzosnykaDepartment of Clinical Neurosciences, Division of Neurosurgery, Cambridge University Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, UK.
Felix Neunhoeffer *Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, University Children's Hospital of Tuebingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany.
Martin U Schuhmann *Section of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany.
University of Tübingen · DEUniversity Children's Hospital Tübingen · DEUniversity of Cambridge · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesImpaired cerebral blood flow is a first-line reason of ischemic-hypoxic brain injury in children. The principal goal of intensive care management is to detect and prevent further cerebral blood flow deficits. This can be achieved by actively managing cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) using input from cerebrovascular autoregulation (CAR). The main objective of the current study was to investigate CAR after cardiac arrest in children.

methodsNineteen consecutive children younger than 18 years after cardiopulmonary resuscitation, in whom intracranial pressure (ICP) was continuously measured, were included. Blood pressure and ICP were continuously monitored via ICM + software and actively managed using the pressure reactivity index (PRx) to achieve and maintain an optimal CPP. Outcome was scored using the extended Glasgow outcome scale (eGOS) at discharge and 6 months.

resultsEight children died in hospital. At 6 months, further 4 children had an unfavorable (eGOS1-4) and 7 a favorable (eGOS5-8) outcome. Over the entire monitoring period, we found an elevated ICP (24.5 vs 7.4 mmHg), a lower CPP (50.3 vs 66.2 mmHg) and a higher PRx (0.24 vs - 0.01), indicating impaired CAR, in patients with unfavorable outcome. The dose of impaired autoregulation was significantly higher in unfavorable outcome (54.6 vs 29.3%). Analyzing only the first 72 h after cardiac arrest, ICP ≥ 10 mmHg and PRx > 0.2 correlated to unfavorable outcome.

conclusionsSignificant doses of impaired CAR within 72 h after resuscitation are associated with unfavorable outcome. The inability to restore autoregulation despite active attempts to do so as well as an elevated ICP may serve as a bad prognostic sign indicating a severe initial hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.

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Brain InjuriesBrain Injuries, TraumaticHeart ArrestHypoxia-Ischemia, BrainIntracranial HypertensionCerebrovascular CirculationChildGlasgow Outcome ScaleHumansIntracranial PressureMonitoring, PhysiologicRetrospective StudiesAutoregulationCerebrovascular reactivityHypoxic-ischemic brain injuryNon-traumatic brain injury

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PMID35680685
PMCPMC9463308
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