title: [Indications for monitoring intracranial pressure].
abstract: A main indication for intracranial pressure monitoring is severe head trauma, where it acts as a diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic guide. Others indications for intracranial pressure monitoring are patients with CSF circulation disturbances, whatever the cause, and various pathologies inducing intracranial hypertension, such as encephalopathies. Intracranial pressure monitoring must be associated with the measurement of mean arterial pressure, arterial and jugular venous oxygen saturation and blood flow velocity in major intracranial arteries with transcranial Doppler sonography.
authors.affiliation: Service d'anesthésie-réanimation, hôpital Henri-Mondor, Créteil, France.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Melon
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D000075202:Contraindications; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications*; D006406:Hematoma / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D006501:Hepatic Encephalopathy / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000150:complications; D019586:Intracranial Hypertension / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D007427:Intracranial Pressure; D008365:Manometry / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods