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2014 (English)In: Neurocritical Care, ISSN 1541-6933, E-ISSN 1556-0961, Vol. 20, no 3, p. 413-426Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The neurological wake-up test (NWT) is used to monitor the level of consciousness in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, it requires interruption of sedation and may elicit a stress response. We evaluated the effects of the NWT using cerebral microdialysis (MD), brain tissue oxygenation (PbtiO2), jugular venous oxygen saturation (SjvO(2)), and/or arterial-venous difference (AVD) for glucose, lactate, and oxygen in patients with severe TBI. Seventeen intubated TBI patients (age 16-74 years) were sedated using continuous propofol infusion. All patients received intracranial pressure (ICP) and cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) monitoring in addition to MD, PbtiO2 and/or SjvO(2). Up to 10 days post-injury, ICP, CPP, PbtiO2 (51 NWTs), MD (49 NWTs), and/or SjvO(2) (18 NWTs) levels during propofol sedation (baseline) and NWT were compared. MD was evaluated at a flow rate of 1.0 mu L/min (28 NWTs) or the routine 0.3 mu L/min rate (21 NWTs). The NWT increased ICP and CPP levels (p < 0.05). Compared to baseline, interstitial levels of glucose, lactate, pyruvate, glutamate, glycerol, and the lactate/pyruvate ratio were unaltered by the NWT. Pathological SjvO(2) (< 50 % or > 71 %; n = 2 NWTs) and PbtiO2 (< 10 mmHg; n = 3 NWTs) values were rare at baseline and did not change following NWT. Finally, the NWT did not alter the AVD of glucose, lactate, or oxygen. The NWT-induced stress response resulted in increased ICP and CPP levels although it did not negatively alter focal neurochemistry or cerebral oxygenation in TBI patients.
Keywords
Traumatic brain injury, Cerebral microdialysis, Brain tissue oxygenation, Jugular venous oxygenation, Neurological wake-up test, Brain energy metabolism, Interruption of sedation
National Category
Neurosciences Neurology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-228469 (URN)10.1007/s12028-013-9876-4 (DOI)000337092900010 ()
2014-07-152014-07-152022-01-28Bibliographically approved