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PEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
Volume 16, Issue 8, Pages 739-749Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000000471
Keywords
arterial pressure; cerebrovascular circulation; children; Glasgow Outcome Scale; intracranial pressure; traumatic brain injury
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Funding
- Transport Accident Commission
- National Institute of Health Research, UK, Biomedical Research Center
- National Institute of Health Research, UK
- TAC
- MRC [G9439390, G0600986] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0600986, G9439390] Funding Source: researchfish
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Objective: Traumatic brain injury is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in children. Cerebral autoregulation disturbance after traumatic brain injury is associated with worse outcome. Pressure reactivity is a fundamental component of cerebral autoregulation that can be estimated using the pressure-reactivity index, a correlation between slow arterial blood pressure, and intracranial pressure fluctuations. Pressure-reactivity index has shown prognostic value in adult traumatic brain injury, with one study confirming this in children. Pressure-reactivity index can identify a cerebral perfusion pressure range within which pressure reactivity is optimal. An increasing difference between optimal cerebral perfusion pressure and cerebral perfusion pressure is associated with worse outcome in adult traumatic brain injury; however, this has not been investigated in children. Our objective was to study pressure-reactivity index and optimal cerebral perfusion pressure in pediatric traumatic brain injury, including associations with outcome, age, and cerebral perfusion pressure. Design: Prospective observational study. Setting: ICU, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Patients: Patients with traumatic brain injury who are 6 months to 16 years old, are admitted to the ICU, and require arterial blood pressure and intracranial pressure monitoring. Interventions: None. Measurements and Main Results: Arterial blood pressure, intracranial pressure, and end-tidal Co-2 were recorded electronically until ICU discharge or monitoring cessation. Pressure-reactivity index and optimal cerebral perfusion pressure were computed according to previously published methods. Clinical data were collected from electronic medical records. Outcome was assessed 6 months post discharge using the modified Glasgow Outcome Score. Thirty-six patients were monitored, with 30 available for follow-up. Pressure-reactivity index correlated with modified Glasgow Outcome Score (Spearman rho = 0.42; p = 0.023) and was higher in patients with unfavorable outcome (0.23 vs -0.09; p = 0.0009). A plot of pressure-reactivity index averaged within 5 mm Hg cerebral perfusion pressure bins showed a U-shape, reaffirming the concept of cerebral perfusion pressure optimization in children. Optimal cerebral perfusion pressure increased with age (rho = 0.40; p = 0.02). Both the duration and magnitude of negative deviations in the difference between cerebral perfusion pressure and optimal cerebral perfusion pressure were associated with unfavorable outcome. Conclusions: In pediatric patients with traumatic brain injury, pressure-reactivity index has prognostic value and can identify cerebral perfusion pressure targets that may differ from treatment protocols. Our results suggest but do not confirm that cerebral perfusion pressure targeting using pressure-reactivity index as a guide may positively impact on outcome. This question should be addressed by a prospective clinical study.
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