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Intracranial Pressure Monitoring

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The practice of continuous monitoring of the intracranial pressure (ICP), developed over the last 25 years, has played a major part in establishing neurological critical care as a distinct form of intensive care. Raised ICP is a frequent occurrence in patients with a wide range of disorders of the central nervous system—traumatic, vascular, neoplastic, infective and developmental—particularly when the level of consciousness is depressed.

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  1. Intensive Care Unit, Guy’s Hospital, St. Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RT, UK

    David Bihari

  2. Department of Neuropsychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC, 20307, USA

    John W. Holaday

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Miller, J.D. (1989). Intracranial Pressure Monitoring. In: Bihari, D., Holaday, J.W. (eds) Brain Failure. Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83929-0_18

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