• Chiara Robba, Danilo Cardim, Tamara Tajsic, Justine Pietersen, Michael Bulman, Frank Rasulo, Rita Bertuetti, Joseph Donnelly, Liu Xiuyun, Zofia Czosnyka, Manuel Cabeleira, Peter Smielewski, Basil Matta, Alessandro Bertuccio, and Marek Czosnyka.
• Neurosciences Critical Care Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. kiarobba@gmail.com.
• Acta Neurochir. Suppl. 2018 Jan 1; 126: 69-73.

BackgroundNon-invasive measurement of intracranial pressure (ICP) can be invaluable in the management of critically ill patients. Invasive measurement of ICP remains the "gold standard" and should be performed when clinical indications are met, but it is invasive and brings some risks. In this project, we aim to validate the non-invasive ICP (nICP) assessment models based on arterious and venous transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (TCD) and optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD).MethodsWe included brain injured patients requiring invasive ICP monitoring (intraparenchymal or intraventricular). We assessed the concordance between ICP measured non-invasively with arterious [flow velocity diastolic formula (ICPFVd) and pulsatility index (PI)], venous TCD (vPI) and ICP derived from ONSD (nICPONSD) compared to invasive ICP measurement.ResultsLinear regression showed a positive relationship between nICP and ICP for all the methods, except PIv. ICPONSD showed the strongest correlation with invasive ICP (r = 0.61) compared to the other methods (ICPFVd, r = 0.26, p value = 0.0015; PI, r = 0.19, p value = 0.02, vPI, r = 0.056, p value = 0.510). The ability to predict intracranial hypertension was highest for ICPONSD (AUC = 0.91; 95% CI, 0.85-0.97 at ICP > 20 mmHg), with a sensitivity and specificity of 85%, followed by ICPFVd (AUC = 0.67; 95% CI, 0.54-0.79).ConclusionsOur results demonstrate that among the non-invasive methods studied, ONSD showed the best accuracy in the detection of ICP.

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