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Over the past decade, intracranial monitoring devices have gained increased acceptance by clinicians. While monitoring devices cannot independently improve outcome, physiologic data are contributed which can be integrated into a therapeutic plan for the individual patient with an acute neurologic illness. Increasingly, anesthesiologists encounter patients with intracranial pressure (ICP) monitors, external ventricular drainage (EVD) devices, and brain tissue oxygen tension (PBO2) monitors. This chapter will focus on common complications associated with each of these monitors.
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Petrozza, P.H. (2012). Intracranial Monitors in Neurosurgical Critical Care. In: Brambrink, A., Kirsch, J. (eds) Essentials of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09562-2_85
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