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Measurement of ICP is useful in monitoring brain injured patients (Lundberg 1960, Marshall 1979), but the small, early changes in ICP are not a sensitive means of predicting further increases in ICP. The change in ICP is small with the first ccs of volume added to the cranial cavity and is not significantly larger than the normal variation in ICP. Only after several ccs of volume are added to the system does intracranial pressure begin to increase significantly and, at that point, relatively small changes in intracranial volume may significantly increase the ICP.
This study was funded in Part by National Institute of Health grant 5P01NS14844
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Graham, S.H., Miner, M.E., Drennon, D.L., Hackenberry, L.E. (1983). An Automated Method of Measurement of Intracranial Mechanical Properties. In: Ishii, S., Nagai, H., Brock, M. (eds) Intracranial Pressure V. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69204-8_37
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