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What's the Major Regulator of Cerebral Perfusion?
The PCO2 is by far the major regulator of cerebral perfusion. And it's also one of the most reliable interventions you can do to lower ICP. In severe TBI, people lose that ability to auto regulate their pressure. So we focus so much on keeping the mean arterial pressure up.