Citation

Adelson PD, Srinivas R, Chang Y, Bell M, Kochanek PM. Childs Nerv. Syst. 2011; 27(9): 1465-1476.

Affiliation

Phoenix Children's Neuroscience Institute and Pediatric Neurosurgery, 4th Floor, Building B, 1919 East Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ, 85016, USA, dadelson@phoenixchildrens.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00381-011-1476-z

PMID

21559825

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To describe the pathophysiologic response in cerebral blood flow (CBF) and autoregulation after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) ≤8 on admission, in children, defining a baseline for future studies. METHODS: Retrospective chart review of 95 patients following TBI, ages 0.1-18.4 years (<5 years (n = 44), <2 years (n = 17)) for CBF using Xenon Computerized Tomography (XeCT) over a 10-year period and 6-month Glasgow Outcome Scores (GOS). A total of 140 CBF studies were performed variably from admission up to post injury day (PID) 9; 27 patients underwent repeat CBF study after PaCO(2) was manipulated to determine CO(2) vasoreactivity (CO(2)VR). RESULTS: Mean CBF on admission (PID 0, n = 26) was 32.05 ± 21.45 ml/100 g/min (mean ± SEM) and was ≤20 ml/100 g/min in eight patients. At PID 1-2, mean CBF increased to 55.36 ± 23.11 ml/100 g/min. There was significant differences in mean CBF of "favorable" outcomes (GOS ≥ 4) versus "unfavorable" outcome (GOS ≤ 3) (61.74 ± 18.27 vs. 46.54 ± 26.26, respectively (P = 0.01)). "Unfavorable" outcomes were seen in all patients with CBF ≤20 ml/100 mg/min during PID 0-2 and in 76.5% of children <2 years. CO(2)VR <2%/Torr PaCO(2) within PID 0-2 was significantly associated with "unfavorable" outcome (P = 0.029). CONCLUSION: Younger age, early or later low CBF, and CO(2)VR <2%/Torr PaCO(2) were correlated with poorer outcomes in children. This represents the largest experience with XeCT CBF in children and confirms our preliminary report of low early CBF after TBI in children, disturbed CO(2)VR, and relationship of low CBF and unfavorable outcome.

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