Intracranial pressure-flow relationships in traumatic brain injury patients expose gaps in the tenets of models and pressure-oriented management

Abstract <jats:sec id="s21">Background The protocols and therapeutic guidance established for treating traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in neurointensive care focus on managing cerebral blood flow (CBF) and brain tissue oxygenation based on pressure signals. The decision support process relies on assumed relationships between cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) and blood flow, pressure-flow relationships (PFRs), and shares this framework of assumptions with mathematical intracranial hemodynamic models. These foundational assumptions are difficult to verify, and their violation can impact clinical decision-making and model validity.<jats:sec id="s22">Method A hypothesis– and model-driven method for verifying and understanding the foundational intracranial hemodynamic PFRs is developed and applied to a novel multi-modality monitoring dataset.<jats:sec id="s23">Results Model analysis of joint observations of CPP and CBF validates the standard PFR when autoregulatory processes are impaired as well as unmodelable cases dominated by autoregulation. However, it also identifies a dynamical regime-or behavior pattern-where the PFR assumptions are wrong in a precise, data-inferable way due to negative CPP-CBF coordination over long timescales. This regime is of both clinical and research interest: its dynamics are modelable under modified assumptions while its causal direction and mechanistic pathway remain unclear.<jats:sec id="s24">Conclusions Motivated by the understanding of mathematical physiology, the validity of the standard PFR can be assesseda)directly by analyzing pressure reactivity and mean flow indices (PRx and Mx) orb)indirectly through the relationship between CBF and other clinical observables. This approach could potentially help personalize TBI care by considering intracranial pressure and CPP in relation to other data, particularly CBF. The analysis suggests a threshold using clinical indices of autoregulation jointly generalizes independently set indicators to assess CA functionality. These results support the use of increasingly data-rich environments to develop more robust hybrid physiological-machine learning models.<jats:sec id="s25">Author Summary The current understanding of pressure-flow relationships used in neurocritical decision making are incomplete, and a novel dataset begins to illuminate what is missing..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 22. Jan. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Englisch

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Stroh, JN [VerfasserIn]
Foreman, Brandon [VerfasserIn]
Bennett, Tellen D [VerfasserIn]
Briggs, Jennifer K [VerfasserIn]
Park, Soojin [VerfasserIn]
Albers, David J [VerfasserIn]

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10.1101/2024.01.17.24301445

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XBI042211816