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Optimal Cerebral Perfusion Pressure

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The Importance of Independent Variables in Paralysis

There's an idea called CPP opt. The underlying hypothesis is that if you CPP is too low, your blood vessels in your brain will vasodilate to try to get more blood into the brain. And then you get hyperremia as a consequence of that. So there was a single cohort of patients who had some traumatic brain injury and they looked what happened? ICP map like this: What do you think is going to happen to the ICP if you escalate the ICP from 60 to 70? It's kind of where Lassen described it. You might have learned aboutLassen's curve at medical school. But we're talking about cerebral edema regulation

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