scholarly journals Transcranial Doppler as an Confirmatory Test in Brain Death

10.5772/32413 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arijana Lovrencic-Huzjan
Keyword(s):  
Brain Death ◽  
Transcranial Doppler ◽  
Confirmatory Test

Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography in raised intra-cranial pressure and in intracranial circulatory arrest

1988 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 745-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Hassler ◽  
Helmuth Steinmetz ◽  
Jan Gawlowski
Keyword(s):  
Intracranial Pressure ◽  
Brain Death ◽  
Intracranial Hypertension ◽  
Cerebral Perfusion Pressure ◽  
Transcranial Doppler ◽  
Cerebral Perfusion ◽  
Doppler Ultrasonography ◽  
Perfusion Pressure ◽  
Circulatory Arrest ◽  
Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography

✓ Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography was used to monitor 71 patients suffering from intracranial hypertension with subsequent brain death. Among these, 29 patients were also assessed for systemic arterial pressure and epidural intracranial pressure, so that a correlation between cerebral perfusion pressure and the Doppler ultrasonography waveforms could be established. Four-vessel angiography was also performed in 33 patients after clinical brain death. With increasing intracranial pressure, the transcranial Doppler ultrasonography waveforms exhibited different characteristic high-resistance profiles with first low, then zero, and then reversed diastolic flow velocities, depending on the relationship between intracranial pressure and blood pressure (that is, cerebral perfusion pressure). This study shows that transcranial. Doppler ultrasonography may be used to assess the degree of intracranial hypertension. This technique further provides a practicable, noninvasive bedside monitor of therapeutic measures.

Brain death and transcranial Doppler: Experience in 130 cases of brain dead patients

1998 ◽  
Vol 160 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Ducrocq ◽  
Marc Braun ◽  
Marc Debouverie ◽  
Christel Junges ◽  
Mireille Hummer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Death ◽  
Transcranial Doppler ◽  
Brain Dead

Application of transcranial Doppler ultrasonography for the diagnosis of brain death

1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 822-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Hadani ◽  
B. Bruk ◽  
Z. Ram ◽  
N. Knoller ◽  
R. Spiegelmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Death ◽  
Transcranial Doppler ◽  
Doppler Ultrasonography ◽  
Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography
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