Background: Microdialysis is used in many European neurointensive care units to monitor brain chemistry in patients suffering subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) or traumatic brain injury (TBI). Discussion: We present a consensus agreement achieved at a meeting in Stockholm by a group of experienced users of microdialysis in neurointensive care, defining the use of microdialysis, placement of catheters, unreliable values, chemical markers, and clinical use in SAH and in TBI. Conclusions: As microdialysis is maturing into a clinically useful technique for early detection of cerebral ischemia and secondary brain damage, there is a need to following such definition regarding when and how to use microdialysis after SAH and TBI.
Consensus meeting on microdialysis in neurointensive care / B. Bellander, E. Cantais, P. Enblad, P. Hutchinson, C. Nordström, C. Robertson, J. Sahuquillo, M. Smith, N. Stocchetti, U. Ungerstedt, A. Unterberg, N. Olsen. - In: INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE. - ISSN 0342-4642. - 30:12(2004), pp. 2166-2169. [10.1007/s00134-004-2461-8]
Consensus meeting on microdialysis in neurointensive care
N. Stocchetti;
2004
Abstract
Background: Microdialysis is used in many European neurointensive care units to monitor brain chemistry in patients suffering subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) or traumatic brain injury (TBI). Discussion: We present a consensus agreement achieved at a meeting in Stockholm by a group of experienced users of microdialysis in neurointensive care, defining the use of microdialysis, placement of catheters, unreliable values, chemical markers, and clinical use in SAH and in TBI. Conclusions: As microdialysis is maturing into a clinically useful technique for early detection of cerebral ischemia and secondary brain damage, there is a need to following such definition regarding when and how to use microdialysis after SAH and TBI.
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