Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38981680›Full record

ArticleAnimal models and experimental medicine2024

Epidural pressure measurement using a fiber-optic sensor (proof-of-principle in vivo animal trial).

Susanne Barz, Marvin Friedemann, Sebastian Voigt, Markus Melloh, Thomas Barz

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Animal models and experimental medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Susanne BarzDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, Rostock University Medical Center, Universitätsmedizin Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
Marvin FriedemannChemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany.
Sebastian VoigtChemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany.
Markus MellohSchool of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Thomas BarzOrthopedic Department, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6314-9772

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAn increase in epidural pressure around the stenosis has been observed in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) with positive signs of sedimentation or redundant nerve roots. Further analysis of the pressure conditions in the stenotic area would be of great interest. We hypothesized that it would be possible to determine the physiological parameters of the epidural pulse wave and its course in pathological stenosis as a basis for objective identification of LSS based on pressure using a new measuring method with continuous spatial and temporal resolution.

methodsWe performed a single-case proof-of-principle in vivo animal trial and used a newly developed hybrid pressure-measurement probe with a fiber-tip Fabry-Pérot interferometer and several fiber Bragg gratings (FBG).

resultsWith reproducible precision, we determined the mean epidural pressure to be 7.5 mmHg and the peak-to-peak value to be 4-5 mmHg. When analyzing the pressure measured by an FBG array, both the heart and respiratory rates can be precisely determined. This study was the first to measure the pulse wave velocity of the cerebrospinal fluid pressure wave as 0.97 m/s using the newly developed pressure probe. A simulated LSS was detected in real time and located exactly.

conclusionsThe developed fiber-optic pressure sensor probe enables a new objective measurement of epidural pressure. We confirmed our hypothesis that physiological parameters of the epidural pulse wave can be determined and that it is possible to identify an LSS.

Indexed as

Epidural SpaceFiber Optic TechnologyAnimalsCerebrospinal Fluid PressureOptical FibersPressureSpinal Stenosisanimalcerebrospinal fluid pressurepulse wave velocityspinal stenosis

Identifiers

PMID38981680
PMCPMC11528391

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.