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Continuous Multimodality Monitoring in Children after Traumatic Brain Injury-Preliminary Experience.

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Young, Adam MH 
Jalloh, Ibrahim 

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Multimodality monitoring is regularly employed in adult traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients where it provides physiologic and therapeutic insight into this heterogeneous condition. Pediatric studies are less frequent. METHODS: An analysis of data collected prospectively from 12 pediatric TBI patients admitted to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) between August 2012 and December 2014 was performed. Patients' intracranial pressure (ICP), mean arterial pressure (MAP), and cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) were monitored continuously using brain monitoring software ICM+®,) Pressure reactivity index (PRx) and 'Optimal CPP' (CPPopt) were calculated. Patient outcome was dichotomized into survivors and non-survivors. RESULTS: At 6 months 8/12 (66%) of the cohort survived the TBI. The median (±IQR) ICP was significantly lower in survivors 13.1±3.2 mm Hg compared to non-survivors 21.6±42.9 mm Hg (p = 0.003). The median time spent with ICP over 20 mm Hg was lower in survivors (9.7+9.8% vs 60.5+67.4% in non-survivors; p = 0.003). Although there was no evidence that CPP was different between survival groups, the time spent with a CPP close (within 10 mm Hg) to the optimal CPP was significantly longer in survivors (90.7±12.6%) compared with non-survivors (70.6±21.8%; p = 0.02). PRx provided significant outcome separation with median PRx in survivors being 0.02±0.19 compared to 0.39±0.62 in non-survivors (p = 0.02). CONCLUSION: Our observations provide evidence that multi-modality monitoring may be useful in pediatric TBI with ICP, deviation of CPP from CPPopt, and PRx correlating with patient outcome.

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Blood Pressure, Brain Injuries, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Intensive Care Units, Pediatric, Intracranial Pressure, Male, Monitoring, Physiologic, Multimodal Imaging, Prospective Studies

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PLoS One

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1932-6203
1932-6203

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11

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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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Medical Research Council (G0601025)
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We gratefully acknowledge financial support as follows. Research support: the Medical Research Council (MRC, Grant Nos. G0600986 ID79068 and G1002277 ID98489) and the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR BRC) Cambridge (Neuroscience Theme; Brain Injury and Repair Theme). Authors’ support: Peter J Hutchinson – NIHR Research Professorship, Academy of Medical Sciences/Health Foundation Senior Surgical Scientist Fellowship and NIHR Cambridge BRC. Joseph Donnelly is supported by a Woolf Fisher Scholarship. MC- NIHR BRC.