Anesteziologiia i reanimatologiia
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Ischemic tolerance (preconditioning) is taken to mean a short ischemic episode subfatal to cells that activates the protective endogenous mechanisms that ensure tolerance of further longer and more severe episodes of ischemia by the organ (tissue). The present review attempts to analyze information on ischemic preconditioning in the light of the possible use for brain protection. Experimental models, temporal aspects, crossed tolerance, genomic reaction, and mechanisms are considered. There is evidence for human ischemic preconditioning.
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Anesteziol Reanimatol · Mar 2008
Randomized Controlled Trial[Effect of the combined hypertonic colloidal solution HyperHeas on hemodynamic and oxygen transport parameters, intracranial pressure, and cerebral oxygenation].
The paper gives the results of a clinical study of the effect of the new combined hypertonic colloidal and hypertonic solution HyperHaes (Frezenius-Cabi) on the parameters of systemic hemodynamics (invasive evaluation by means of a Swan-Ganz catheter), systemic oxygen transport, intracranial pressure (ICP) (lumbar spinal fluid pressure), and cerebral oximetry (INVOS 5100) in neurosurgical patients. The paradoxical effect was found as acute blood pressure lowering and elevated ICP on the beginning of solution infusion (the vasodilator effect of a distinctly hyperosmolar agent). In all other respects, HyperHaes is an ideal agent for volumetric compensation in neurosurgical patients.
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Anesteziol Reanimatol · Mar 2008
[Intraoperative and early postoperative complications of puncture-dilation tracheostomy in neurosurgical patients].
The paper provides a detailed analysis of the most common and clinically significant complications due to percutaneous dilation tracheostomy performed in 479 patients with neurosurgical diseases in 2002-2007. It also considers such complication of the technique, which is specific to neurosurgical patients, as elevated intracranial pressure (ICP), and describes a procedure of tracheostomy in patients with elevated ICP. Percutaneous dilation tracheostomy made by a skilled surgeon is shown to be effective and safe.
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Anesteziol Reanimatol · Mar 2008
[The first experience in monitoring the cerebral vascular autoregulation in the acute period of severe brain injury].
The paper presents the first experience in monitoring the pressure reactivity index (Prx) of cerebral vascular autoregulation in a group of patients with severe brain injury. This autoregulation index along with the monitored parameters of intracranial pressure (ICP) and cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) allows the outcome to be predicted in brain injury: the outcome is poor at a Prx of > 0.2. The continuous estimation of the autoregulation index makes it possible to determine the optimum CPP value for each patient and to timely diagnose decompensation of cerebral vascular autoregulation, which is of importance in selecting treatment policy.