Preliminary report on spiegelberg pre and post-operative monitoring of severe head-injured patients who received decompressive craniectomy

• Main Authors: Abdullah Jafri, Jafri, Zamzuri, Idris, Awang, Mohamed Saufi, Sayuti , Sani, Ghani , Abdul Rahman, Tahir , Adnan, Naing, N.N
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag 2005
• Subjects: RD Surgery
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/40357/1/Acta_Neurochir-head_trauma.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/40357/; http://www.springer.com/medicine/surgery/journal/701
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

The monitoring of craniospinal compliance is uncommonly used clinically despite it’s value. The Spiegelberg compliance monitor calculates intracranial compliance (C ¼ DV/DP) from a moving average of small ICP perturbations (DP) resulting from a sequence of up to 200 pulses of added volume (DV ¼ 0.1...