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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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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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