Shraddha Mainali1, Danilo Cardim2, Aarti Sarwal3, Lisa H Merck4, Sharon D Yeatts5, Marek Czosnyka6, Lori Shutter7. 1. Department of Neurology, Virginial Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA. Shraddha.Mainali@vcuhealth.org. 2. Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. 3. Department of Neurology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA. 4. Departments of Emergency Medicine and Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA. 5. Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA. 6. Brain Physics Laboratory, Neurosurgical Unit, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. 7. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (TCD) is a portable, bedside, noninvasive diagnostic tool used for the real-time assessment of cerebral hemodynamics. Despite the evident utility of TCD and the ability of this technique to function as a stethoscope to the brain, its use has been limited to specialized centers because of the dearth of technical and clinical expertise required to acquire and interpret the cerebrovascular parameters. Additionally, the conventional pragmatic episodic TCD monitoring protocols lack dynamic real-time feedback to guide time-critical clinical interventions. Fortunately, with the recent advent of automated robotic TCD technology in conjunction with the automated software for TCD data processing, we now have the technology to automatically acquire TCD data and obtain clinically relevant information in real-time. By obviating the need for highly trained clinical personnel, this technology shows great promise toward a future of widespread noninvasive monitoring to guide clinical care in patients with acute brain injury. METHODS: Here, we describe a proposal for a prospective observational multicenter clinical trial to evaluate the safety and feasibility of prolonged automated robotic TCD monitoring in patients with severe acute traumatic brain injury (TBI). We will enroll patients with severe non-penetrating TBI with concomitant invasive multimodal monitoring including, intracranial pressure, brain tissue oxygenation, and brain temperature monitoring as part of standard of care in centers with varying degrees of TCD availability and experience. Additionally, we propose to evaluate the correlation of pertinent TCD-based cerebral autoregulation indices such as the critical closing pressure, and the pressure reactivity index with the brain tissue oxygenation values obtained invasively. CONCLUSIONS: The overarching goal of this study is to establish safety and feasibility of prolonged automated TCD monitoring for patients with TBI in the intensive care unit and identify clinically meaningful and pragmatic noninvasive targets for future interventions.
BACKGROUND: Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (TCD) is a portable, bedside, noninvasive diagnostic tool used for the real-time assessment of cerebral hemodynamics. Despite the evident utility of TCD and the ability of this technique to function as a stethoscope to the brain, its use has been limited to specialized centers because of the dearth of technical and clinical expertise required to acquire and interpret the cerebrovascular parameters. Additionally, the conventional pragmatic episodic TCD monitoring protocols lack dynamic real-time feedback to guide time-critical clinical interventions. Fortunately, with the recent advent of automated robotic TCD technology in conjunction with the automated software for TCD data processing, we now have the technology to automatically acquire TCD data and obtain clinically relevant information in real-time. By obviating the need for highly trained clinical personnel, this technology shows great promise toward a future of widespread noninvasive monitoring to guide clinical care in patients with acute brain injury. METHODS: Here, we describe a proposal for a prospective observational multicenter clinical trial to evaluate the safety and feasibility of prolonged automated robotic TCD monitoring in patients with severe acute traumatic brain injury (TBI). We will enroll patients with severe non-penetrating TBI with concomitant invasive multimodal monitoring including, intracranial pressure, brain tissue oxygenation, and brain temperature monitoring as part of standard of care in centers with varying degrees of TCD availability and experience. Additionally, we propose to evaluate the correlation of pertinent TCD-based cerebral autoregulation indices such as the critical closing pressure, and the pressure reactivity index with the brain tissue oxygenation values obtained invasively. CONCLUSIONS: The overarching goal of this study is to establish safety and feasibility of prolonged automated TCD monitoring for patients with TBI in the intensive care unit and identify clinically meaningful and pragmatic noninvasive targets for future interventions.
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