Journal of clinical monitoring and computing
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J Clin Monit Comput · Feb 2019
Letter Case ReportsIntubation in prone position using AirTraq Avant videolaryngoscope.
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J Clin Monit Comput · Feb 2019
Editorial CommentImplementation of goal-directed therapy needs a boost, and it is called assisted fluid management.
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J Clin Monit Comput · Feb 2019
Predicting delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage using physiological time series data.
To develop and validate a prediction model for delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) using a temporal unsupervised feature engineering approach, demonstrating improved precision over standard features. 488 consecutive SAH admissions from 2006 to 2014 to a tertiary care hospital were included. Models were trained on 80%, while 20% were set aside for validation testing. Baseline information and standard grading scales were evaluated: age, sex, Hunt Hess grade, modified Fisher Scale (mFS), and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). ⋯ Combined baseline and physiologic features with redundant feature reduction: AUC 0.77. Current DCI prediction tools rely on admission imaging and are advantageously simple to employ. However, using an agnostic and computationally inexpensive learning approach for high-frequency physiologic time series data, we demonstrated that our models achieve higher classification accuracy.
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J Clin Monit Comput · Feb 2019
The intracranial pressure curve correlates to the pulsatile component of cerebral blood flow.
Current methods to measure cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the neuro critical care setting cannot monitor the CBF continuously. In contrast, continuous measurement of intracranial pressure (ICP) is readily accomplished, and there is a component of ICP that correlates with arterial inflow of blood into the cranial cavity. This property may have utility in using continuous ICP curve analysis to continuously estimate CBF. ⋯ In contrast there was a correlation between the AUCICP and ccCBFMRpuls (R2 = 0.440 P = 0.013). The AUCΔV correlated more appropriately with the ccCBFMRpuls. (R2 = 0.688 P < 0.001). Our findings suggests that the pulsatile part of the intracranial pressure curve, especially when transformed into a volume curve, correlates to the pulsatile part of the CBF.
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During the wash-in period in low flow anaesthesia (LFA), high fresh gas flow is used to achieve the desired agent concentration. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the safety of fixed 1 L/min fresh gas flow desflurane anaesthesia in both the wash-in and maintenance periods in patients including the obese ones. 104 patients undergoing surgery under general anaesthesia were included. After endotracheal intubation, fresh gas flow was reduced to 1 L/min and the desflurane vaporizer was set at 18%. ⋯ The number of adjustments in vaporizer settings was 56. Average desflurane consumption was 0.33 ± 0.05 mL/min. We demonstrated that LFA without use of initial high fresh gas flow during the wash-in period is an effective, safe and economic method which is easy to perform.