A computer software for frequential analysis of slow intracranial pressure waves
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A Detailed Protocol for Physiological Parameters Acquisition and Analysis in Neurosurgical Critical Patients
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J J Lemaire1, J Y Boire, J Chazal
1Service of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
|February 1, 1994
Abstract:
A microcomputer program to analyse ICP signal in the frequential domain is described. It allows the detection and quantification of especially slow pressure waves (A, B, and C). 212 ICP data recordings were analysed with our software, and gave pertinent frequential informations. The status report and lessons learned are discussed.
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