Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1995-05-23
1997-04-08
Rimell, Sam
Surgery
Truss
Pad
128774, 33511, 33512, A61B 505
Patent
active
056178735
ABSTRACT:
Non-invasive measuring devices responsive to changes in a patient's intracranial pressure (ICP) can be accurately calibrated for monitoring purposes by providing known changes in ICP by non-invasive methods, such as placing the patient on a tilting bed and calculating a change in ICP from the tilt angle and the length of the patient's cerebrospinal column, or by placing a pressurized skull cap on the patient and measuring the inflation pressure. Absolute values for the patient's pressure-volume index (PVI) and the steady state ICP can then be determined by inducing two known changes in the volume of cerebrospinal fluid while recording the corresponding changes in ICP by means of the calibrated measuring device. The two pairs of data for pressure change and volume change are entered into an equation developed from an equation describing the relationship between ICP and cerebrospinal fluid volume. PVI and steady state ICP are then determined by solving the equation. Methods for inducing known changes in cerebrospinal fluid volume are described.
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Cantrell, Jr. John H.
Yost William T.
Chasteen Kimberly A.
Racunas Robert V.
Rimell Sam
The United States of America as represented by the Administrator
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