Saturday, December 15, 2012

Value of Intracranial Pressure Monitoring in TBI Questioned

A new trial published in, N Engl J Med. Published online December 12, 2012. Abstract Editorial, has questioned the Value of Intracranial Pressure Monitoring in TBI.
The trial found that care focused on maintaining monitored ICP at or below 20 mm Hg (as guidelines recommend) in order to avoid poor outcome was not superior to care based on serial computed tomography (CT) and neurologic clinical examination.