Rechnitz Ohad, Paldor Iddo
Department of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel; Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institutie of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Department of Neurosurgery, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
World Neurosurg. 2024 Dec;192:e64-e70. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2024.09.005. Epub 2024 Sep 10.
Intracranial pressure (ICP) is a well-established measure in managing not only traumatic brain injury but also nontraumatic intracranial bleeding or edema. When ICP increases despite nursing or medical management, ICP may be reduced via surgical measures. Deciding whether to perform a craniotomy vs. craniectomy (whether the bone flap is replaced or not, respectively) is commonly made intraoperatively following preoperative planning. While ICP monitoring (ICPm) is standard pre- and postoperatively, its intraoperative utility remains understudied.
We conducted a study utilizing prospectively gathered and retrospectively analyzed data from 25 traumatic brain injury surgical decompression cases at a single center. All cases had intraoperative ICPm throughout surgery.
Our findings indicate that ICPm significantly influenced real-time intraoperative decision-making, diverging from preoperative.
These results bring forward the potential pivotal role of intraoperative ICPm in guiding surgical strategies for elevated ICP, suggesting a novel data-driven approach to intraoperative management of decompression surgery.
