IVth SECTION
MONITORING, NEURORIANIMATION, SYSTEMIC HOMEOSTASIS, VASOSPASM TREATMENTS  PROCEEDINGS OF THE VIDEOCONFERENCE - October 5, 1996
SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH - II Free

Minerva Anestesiologica 1998 May;64(5):203-6

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language: Italian

TCD in the intensive care and complications of SAH-patients

Cabrini G. P.

Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, IRCCS - Milano, Istituto di Neurochirurgia

Transcranial Doppler (TCD) is at present the only exam to allow non-invasive, bedside monitoring of cerebral vasospasm after SAH. The high temporal resolution of this technique enables detection of fast flow-velocity changes occurring in intracranial arteries, as well as evaluation of vasomotive reserve and strength of autoregulation. TCD results concerning cerebral vasospasm evaluation are comparable to those obtained in angiographic studies; however the correlation between TCD data and clinical status is not always so strict. This difference could be explained by the fact that TCD measures flow velocity and not flow in intracranial vessels.