Neurosurgical application of a flow-directed oximetry thermodilution catheter for evaluation of cerebral blood flow--technical note
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H Touho1, J Karasawa, H Shishido
1Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka Neurological Institute.
Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica
|July 1, 1991
Abstract:
The neurosurgical application was evaluated of a flow-directed oximetry thermodilution catheter for measurement of oxygen saturation in the jugular vein, which reflects cerebral blood flow (CBF). The catheter allows estimation of changes in CBF during carotid endarterectomy and therapeutically induced hypertension in the management of delayed vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage.