Title Association between the cerebral autoregulation index (pressure reactivity), patient's clinical outcome, and quality of ABP(t) and ICP(t) signals for CA monitoring /
Authors Bajpai, Basant Kumar ; Preiksaitis, Aidanas ; Vosylius, Saulius ; Rocka, Saulius
DOI 10.3390/medicina56030143
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Is Part of Medicina.. Basel : MDPI. 2020, vol. 56, iss. 3, art. no. 143, p. 1-10.. ISSN 1010-660X. eISSN 1648-9144
Keywords [eng] area under the curve ; arterial blood pressure ; cerebral blood flow ; cerebral perfusion pressure ; cerebrovascular autoregulation ; intracranial pressure ; pressure reactivity index ; receiver-operating characteristic ; traumatic brain injury
Abstract [eng] Background and Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore the association between the cerebral autoregulation (CA) index, the pressure reactivity index (PRx), the patient's clinical outcome, and the quality of arterial blood pressure (ABP(t)) and intracranial blood pressure (ICP(t)) signals by comparing two filtering methods to derive the PRx. Materials and Methods: Data from 60 traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients were collected. Moving averaging and FIR (Finite Impulse Response) filtering were performed on the ABP(t) and ICP(t) signals, and the PRx was estimated from both filtered datasets. Sensitivity, specificity, and receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curves with the area under the curves (AUCs) were determined using patient outcomes as a reference. The outcome chosen for comparison among the two filtering methods were mortality and survival. Results: The FIR filtering approach, compared with clinical outcome, had a sensitivity of 70%, a specificity of 81%, and a level of significance p = 0.001 with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.78. The moving average filtering method compared with the clinical outcome had a sensitivity of 58%, a specificity of 72%, and a level of significance p = 0.054, with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.66. Conclusions: The FIR (optimal) filtering approach was found to be more sensitive for discriminating between two clinical outcomes, namely intact (survival) and impaired (death) cerebral autoregulation for TBI treatment decision making.
Published Basel : MDPI
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2020
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