Abstract
Anaesthesia for craniotomy has to be carried out with emphasis on haemodynamic stability, a sufficient cerebral perfusion pressure and avoidance of agents or procedures that increase ICP. The patients presented to a current neuroanaesthesiological practice come with a multitude of intracranial pathologies, ranging from discrete unruptured aneurisms to significantly sized tumours that create a midline shift. It is important to relate the ICP measured in patients with space-occupying lesions to the ICP in patients without lesions. Studies of ICP during craniotomy in patients without space-occupying intracerebral lesions, however, are few. In this chapter data on two populations, one with supratentorial glioblastomas and the other without space-occupying lesions, are presented. Differences between the groups, in ICP and other relevant data obtained, are discussed and the relationship between neuroradiological data and measured ICP correlated.
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Krogh, L., Cold, G. (2008). Comparative Studies of Intracranial Pressure in Patients With and Without Space-Occupying Lesions. In: Cold, G., Juul, N. (eds) Monitoring of Cerebral and Spinal Haemodynamics During Neurosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77873-8_4
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