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Transcranial Doppler as a screening test to exclude intracranial hypertension in brain-injured patients: the IMPRESSIT-2 prospective multicenter international study by Frank A. Rasulo; Stefano Calza; Chiara Robba; Fabio Silvio Taccone; Daniele G. Biasucci; Rafael Badenes; Simone Piva; Davide Savo; Giuseppe Citerio; Jamil R. Dibu; Francesco Curto; Martina Merciadri; Paolo Gritti; Paola Fassini; Soojin Park; Massimo Lamperti; Pierre Bouzat; Paolo Malacarne; Arturo Chieregato; Rita Bertuetti; Raffaele Aspide; Alfredo Cantoni; Victoria McCredie; Lucrezia Guadrini; Nicola Latronico is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Background Alternative noninvasive methods capable of excluding intracranial hypertension through use of transcranial Doppler (ICP__tcd__) in situations where invasive methods cannot be used or are not available would be useful during the management of acutely brain-injured patients. The objective of this study was to determine whether ICP__tcd__ can be considered a reliable screening test compared to the reference standard method, invasive ICP monitoring (ICP__i__), in excluding the presence of intracranial hypertension. ## Methods This was a prospective, international, multicenter, unblinded, diagnostic accuracy study comparing the index test (ICP__tcd__) with a reference standard (ICP__i__), defined as the best available method for establishing the presence or absence of the condition of interest (i.e., intracranial hypertension). Acute brain-injured patients pertaining to one of four categories: traumatic brain injury (TBI), subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) or ischemic stroke (IS) requiring ICP__i__ monitoring, were enrolled in 16 international intensive care units. ICP__i__ measurements (reference test) were compared to simultaneous ICP__tcd__ m

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Author

Frank A. Rasulo; Stefano Calza; Chiara Robba; Fabio Silvio Taccone; Daniele G. Biasucci; Rafael Badenes; Simone Piva; Davide Savo; Giuseppe Citerio; Jamil R. Dibu; Francesco Curto; Martina Merciadri; Paolo Gritti; Paola Fassini; Soojin Park; Massimo Lamperti; Pierre Bouzat; Paolo Malacarne; Arturo Chieregato; Rita Bertuetti; Raffaele Aspide; Alfredo Cantoni; Victoria McCredie; Lucrezia Guadrini; Nicola Latronico

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)