title: David Price--Pioneer of digital ICP monitoring, neurosurgeon and teacher.
abstract: In early 1970s first personal desk-top computers started to be available in hospitals. Mr Price was one of the pioneers introducing his own software to identify Marmarou's model of CSF space during infusion studies to diagnose patients suffering from hydrocephalus. His closed-loop control system for infusion of mannitol to manage patients at risk of intracranial hypertension was designed in 1977. The system worked successfully for 10 years in Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, UK. In the middle 1980's he initiated international cooperation with Children's Health Centre in Poland in long-term computer-assisted monitoring and analysis of ICP. Software designed in a course of this cooperation paved the way for contemporary package of ICM+ (Intensive Care Monitor, University of Cambridge, UK). Our scientific portfolio from these years (1985-1995) contains hundreds of head injured patients with waveform ICP analysis, introduction of compensatory reserve index RAP, few highly cited papers. Now, we understand ICP much better thanks to David's personal passion and extremely friendly support.
authors.affiliation: Academic Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital , Cambridge , UK.
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Czosnyka
authors.forename: Ramez
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kirollos
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: van Hille
mesh_terms: D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000601:surgery*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D019586:Intracranial Hypertension / Q000601:surgery*; D007427:Intracranial Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D000069471:Neurosurgeons / Q000266:history*; D013663:Teaching; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: ICP; cerebrospinal fluid pressure; head trauma; hydrocephalus; neurosurgery