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Forewarning of hypotensive events using a Bayesian artificial neural network in neurocritical care
Traumatically brain injured (TBI) patients are at risk from secondary insults. Arterial hypotension, critically low blood pressure, is one of the most dangerous secondary insults and is related to poor outcome...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
KidsBrainIT: A New Multi-centre, Multi-disciplinary, Multi-national Paediatric Brain Monitoring Collaboration
Objectives: Validated optimal cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) treatment thresholds in children do not exist. To improve the intensive care unit (ICU) management of the paediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) p...
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Article
Neurochemical Monitoring of Therapeutic Effects in Large Human MCA Infarction
Cerebral microdialysis is an invasive monitoring tool allowing analysis of various substances derived from the extracellular space in brain tissue such as glutamate, glycerol, lactate, and pyruvate. In order t...
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Article
The use of hyperventilation therapy after traumatic brain injury in Europe: an analysis of the BrainIT database
To assess the use of hyperventilation and the adherence to Brain Trauma Foundation-Guidelines (BTF-G) after traumatic brain injury (TBI).
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Survey of traumatic brain injury management in European Brain-IT centres year 2001
The aim of this study was to obtain basic knowledge about the current local conditions and neurointensive care of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the new multi-centre collaborative BrainIT group.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The BrainIT Group: concept and current status 2004
An open collaborative international network has been established which aims to improve inter-centre standards for collection of high-resolution, neurointensive care data on patients with traumatic brain injury...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Accurate data collection for head injury monitoring studies: a data validation methodology
BrainIT is a multi centre, European project, to collect high quality continuous data from severely head injured patients using a previously defined [6] core data set. This includes minute-by-minute physiologic...
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Article
R3-Survey of traumatic brain injury management in European Brain IT centres year 2001
To obtain knowledge about the conditions and management of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a collaborative network of Brain Information Technology centres.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-Centre Assessment of the Spiegelberg Compliance Monitor: Interim Results
Analyses of a multi-centre database of 71 patients at risk of raised ICP showed that in head injured patients (n = 19) and tumour patients (n = 13) clear inverse relationships of ICP vs compliance exist. SAH p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-Centre Assessment of the Spiegelberg Compliance Monitor: Preliminary Results
Acute brain injury states (eg. head injury, subarachnoid haemorrhage) show clear inverse relationships of ICP vs compliance, with ICP instability at times of lower compliance states. Variance in compliance val...