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Elevated Intracranial Pressure Management - #MEDSHED

Updated: Apr 27

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Treatments for elevated intracranial pressure

 

🎆 Elevated Intracranial Pressure Management - #MEDSHED



🤖 Importance of Maintaining Intracranial Pressures


Severe traumatic brain injuries are associated with a significant incidence of mortality and morbidity.



🍹 Cerebral blood flow is maintained via autoregulation regulate neurologic hemostasis.


Loss of autoregulation secondary to CNS injury; primary injury (cannot be reversed).



👊 Goal of acutely managing elevated intracranial pressures is mitigate secondary brain injury (worsening ischemia)



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