1988

Springer Book Archives

Session I: Monitoring.- Measuring ICP in Patients - Its Value Now and in the Future?.- Physical Characteristics of Various Methods for Measuring ICP.- An Approach to Noninvasive Analysis of Intracranial Pressure (ICP) Using an Ultrasonic Probe.- Clinical Evaluation of the Catheter Tipped Camino Transducer Inserted via a Subdural Screw.- Clinical and Laboratory Evaluation of the Camino Intracranial Pressure Monitoring System.- Clinical Experience with a Fiber Optic Brain Parenchymal Pressure Monitor.- Test of a Non-invasive PVI Measure with a Fiber-optic Pressure Monitoring Device in Head Injured Patients.- Differential Intracranial Pressure Recordings in Patients with Dual Ipsilateral Monitors.- A New Fiberoptic Monitoring Device: Development of the Ventricular Bolt.- Development of a Fully Implantable Epidural Pressure (EDP) Sensor.- Evaluation of a Fibre-optic System for Monitoring Ventricular Pressure.- Clinical Evaluation of a Fiberoptic Device for Measuring PVI.- Microprocessor-driven ICP Fiber Optic Monitor.- Microprocessor-driven ICP Monitor: Instrumentation.- Comparison of Intracranial Pressure Transducers.- Intraparenchymal Brain Pressure - Clinical Evaluation.- Lumbar Pressure Monitoring with a New Fiberoptic Catheter.- Evaluation of Continuous Lumbar Subarachnoid Pressure Monitoring.- Intracranial Pressure Monitoring After Elective Surgery: A Study of 514 Consecutive Patients.- Intracranial Compliance Monitoring with Computerized ICP Waveform Analysis in 55 Comatose Patients.- Software for Neurosurgery Intensive Care.- The Best Dichotomous Parameters for Predicting Mortality and a Good Outcome Following 48 Hours of ICP Monitoring.- Non-invasive Monitoring of ICP in Infants.- The Human Factor in the Accuracy of Intracranial Pressure (ICP) Monitoring Using Extradurally Placed Microtransducers.- Rate of Infection and Cost Containment in Intracranial Pressure Recording.- Continuous Monitoring of Middle Cerebral Arterial Blood Velocity and Cerebral Perfusion Pressure.- Analysis of Frequency Spectrum of the Intracranial Pulse Wave in Cerebral Vasospasm.- Intracranial Volume and Pressure Load Tolerance Evaluated by Continuous Measurement of Doppler Flow Velocity in Intracranial Vessels in Cats.- Simultaneous Monitoring of ICP and Transcranial Doppler Sonogram on the Middle Cerebral Artery.- Effect of Jugular Bulb Catheterization on Intracranial Pressure.- Jugular Bulb Catheterization in Children.- Transcardiac Method of Jugular Bulb Catheterization.- Dynamic Pressure Volume Index via ICP Waveform Analysis.- Single Pulse Pressure Wave Analysis by Fast Fourier Transformation.- A Minicomputer System for Analysis and Display of ICP Related Data.- Modified Auditory Brainstem Responses (MABR) in Patients with Intracranial Lesions.- Detection of the Site of V-P Shunt Malfunction Using a Telemetric IVP Sensor.- Relatiomship of Intracranial Pressure Changes to CT Changes in Children.- Noninvasive Measurement of Intracranial Pressure (ICP) as a Screening Method for Evaluation of Hydrocephalus in Newborn and Infants.- Correlations Between CT Features and ICP in Patients with Intracranial Lesions.- EEG Spectrum Changes After the Bolus Injection of Thiopental.- Session II: Biophysics Session.- Can Waveform Analysis of ICP Separate Vascular from Non-Vascular Causes on Intracranial Hypertension?.- The Origin of CSF Pulse Waves.- Significance of Cortical Venous Pulse Pressure and Superior Sagittal Sinus Pulse Pressure on ICP-Pulse Pressure.- Mathematical Modelling of the Contribution of Arterial Volumetric Pulsation to the Intracranial Pulse Wave.- Single Pulse Spectral Analysis of Intracranial Pressures.- Fourier Analysis of Intracranial Pressures During Experimental Intracranial Hypertension.- Analysis of the Power Spectrum of the Pulse Pressure Wave During Induced Intracranial Hypertension in Humans.- CSF Pulse Waves in a Model of Progressive Hydrocephalus: An Effect Not a Cause of Ventricular Enlargement.- Normal Pressure Hydrocep

This book is a compilation of scientific papers presented at the Seventh Interna tional Symposium on Intracranial Pressure and Brain Injury, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June 20-23, 1988. The symposium explored both clinical and basic science aspects of intracranial pressure dynamics and their clinical applica tion. Neuroscientists including neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroanesthesiolo gists, neuroradiologists, neurochemists, biophysicists and physiologists contrib uted to the state-of-the-art presentations and discussions. Open exchange of ideas characterized this meeting as it did the initial meeting in Hanover, Germany in 1972 and subsequently at tri-annual meetings in Lund, Sweden; Groningen, Holland; Williamsburg, Virginia; Tokyo, Japan; and Glas gow, Scotland. The next Intracranial Pressure Symposium, to be held in Rotter dam, Holland, in 1991, will continue this tradition. The papers in this book have been grouped for the reader's convenience. Clinical and basic science papers focus on the same subject, consequently they appear together. Subjects include monitoring; biophysics; CSF dynamics and hydrocephalus; control of intracranial pressure; trauma, hemorrhage, and in flammation; free radicals; cerebral perfusion and metabolism; and brain edema. The science of intracranial pressure and its relevance to human illness con tinues to provide fascination for investigators throughout the world. This book reflects the research of many of them and, hopefully, will stimulate new and innovative inquiries.