title: Multi-centre assessment of the Spiegelberg compliance monitor: preliminary results.
abstract: Acute brain injury states (e.g. head injury, subarachnoid haemorrhage) show clear inverse relationships of ICP vs compliance, with ICP instability at times of lower compliance states. Variance in compliance values is large in hydrocephalus where ICP is relatively lower and compliance higher. Nonetheless, early experience shows that compliance data influence decisions on CSF diversion treatments. Future work will focus on the ability of intracranial compliance to predict ensuing ICP instability and methodological refinement for monitoring patients who have higher compliance states.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neurological Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Piper
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Contant
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yau
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Whittle
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Citerio
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kiening
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schvning
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Poon
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Enblad
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nilsson
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D001929:Brain Edema / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002404:Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D003187:Compliance; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D007427:Intracranial Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology