Multi-Centre Assessment of the Spiegelberg Compliance Monitor: Preliminary Results

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-6346-7_103
• Publication Date: 2012-07-28T23:49:45Z
• Authors: Ian Piper; L. Dunn; C. Contant; Y. Yau; I. Whittle; G. Citerio; K. Kiening; W. Schvning; S. Ng; W. Poon; P. Enblad; P. Nilsson
• Keywords: Intracranial Pressure; Brain; Reproducibility of Results; Brain Edema; Subarachnoid Hemorrhage; Catheterization; Cerebral Ventricles; Catheters, Indwelling; Brain Injuries; Intracranial pressure, craniospinal compliance, monitoring evaluation; Humans; Compliance; Hydrocephalus; Monitoring, Physiologic

Acute brain injury states (e.g. head injury, subarachnoid haemorrhage) show clear inverse relationships of ICP vs compliance, with instability at times lower compliance states. Variance in values is large hydrocephalus where relatively and higher. Nonetheless, early experience shows that data influence decisions on CSF diversion treatments. Future work will focus the ability intracranial to predict ensuing methodological refinement for monitoring patients who have higher