• Critical care medicine · Sep 2002

    Dynamic cerebral autoregulatory response to blood pressure rise measured by near-infrared spectroscopy and intracranial pressure.

    • Bendicht P Wagner and Juerg Pfenninger.
    • Pediatric Intensive Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Berne, Switzerland. wagner@insel.ch
    • Crit. Care Med. 2002 Sep 1;30(9):2014-21.

    ObjectivesNoninvasive near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) continuously monitors changes in cerebral hemoglobin saturation (Hb(Diff) ) and content (Hb(Total)). It may allow visualization of the dynamic cerebral autoregulatory response to rapid blood pressure increases without relevant contamination of the NIRS signal from extracerebral hemoglobin.DesignProspective cohort study.SettingsMultidisciplinary pediatric intensive care unit.PatientsSix consecutive children in coma due to severe encephalopathy (head trauma, five patients; mumps encephalitis, one patient) requiring artificial ventilation, invasive arterial blood, and intracranial pressure monitoring.InterventionsFrontotemporal recording of Hb(Diff) and Hb(Total) while rapidly elevating blood pressure by bolus injection of phenylephrine.Measurements And ResultsDuring an increase of blood pressure of 13 +/- 1 mm Hg with a "rise time" of 16 +/- 1 secs (mean of a total of 31 injections +/- sem), a significant linear correlation was found between Hb(Diff) and intracranial pressure signals (mean coefficient, 0.46 +/- 0.04) but not between Hb(Total) and intracranial pressure. Three response patterns were observed. First, Hb(Diff) and intracranial pressure reduction, corresponding with vasoconstriction and normal dynamic autoregulation (n = 3); second, Hb(Diff) and intracranial pressure increase, corresponding with persistent vasodilation and abolished autoregulation (n = 11); and third, transient Hb(Diff) and intracranial pressure increase followed by a decrease at peak blood pressure elevation, called impaired autoregulation (n = 15). In one patient with fatal brain swelling, phenylephrine testing showed no effect on NIRS signals (n = 2). Furthermore, there were significant correlations between 31 pooled interindividual pairs of Hb(Diff) changes with intracranial pressure changes (values at baseline averaged over 60 secs subtracted from values at peak blood pressure elevation averaged over 5 secs), with a correlation coefficient of .82 (p <.001).ConclusionsNIRS represents a new and promising technique for bedside determination of dynamic cerebral autoregulation during acutely induced blood pressure rise. The significant correlations found between NIRS signals and intracranial pressure excluded relevant extracerebral contamination of the NIRS signals. In our patients with severe encephalopathy, dynamic autoregulation was in most instances not fully preserved.

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