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- Title
Complexity of intracranial pressure correlates with outcome after traumatic brain injury.
- Authors
Lu CW; Czosnyka M; Shieh JS; Smielewska A; Pickard JD; Smielewski P; Lu, Cheng-Wei; Czosnyka, Marek; Shieh, Jiann-Shing; Smielewska, Anna; Pickard, John D; Smielewski, Peter
- Abstract
This study applied multiscale entropy analysis to investigate the correlation between the complexity of intracranial pressure waveform and outcome after traumatic brain injury. Intracranial pressure and arterial blood pressure waveforms were low-pass filtered to remove the respiratory and pulse components and then processed using a multiscale entropy algorithm to produce a complexity index. We identified significant differences across groups classified by the Glasgow Outcome Scale in intracranial pressure, pressure-reactivity index and complexity index of intracranial pressure (P < 0.0001; P = 0.001; P < 0.0001, respectively). Outcome was dichotomized as survival/death and also as favourable/unfavourable. The complexity index of intracranial pressure achieved the strongest statistical significance (F = 28.7; P < 0.0001 and F = 17.21; P < 0.0001, respectively) and was identified as a significant independent predictor of mortality and favourable outcome in a multivariable logistic regression model (P < 0.0001). The results of this study suggest that complexity of intracranial pressure assessed by multiscale entropy was significantly associated with outcome in patients with brain injury.
- Publication
Brain: A Journal of Neurology, 2012, Vol 135, Issue 8, p2399
- ISSN
0006-8950
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/brain/aws155