{"id":2116,"date":"2019-09-23T21:13:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T21:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:08:40","slug":"icp-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/icp-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Indications for Intracranial Pressure Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Monitoring of Intracranial Pressure (ICP) is an invasive technique and has some associated risks. For a favorable risk-to-benefit ratio, ICP monitoring is indicated only in patients with significant risk of intracranial hypertension.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Indications for ICP Monitoring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) Score: 3\u20138 (after resuscitation)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Abnormal Admission Head CT Scan\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha;\">\n<li>Hematoma<\/li>\n<li>Contusion<\/li>\n<li>Edema<\/li>\n<li>Herniation<\/li>\n<li>Compressed basal cisterns<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Normal Admission Head CT Scan PLUS 2 or more of the following\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha;\">\n<li>Age &gt; 40 years<\/li>\n<li>Motor posturing<\/li>\n<li>Systolic blood pressure &lt; 90 mm Hg<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Rangel-Castillo L, Gopinath S, Robertson CS. Management of intracranial hypertension. Neurol Clin. 2008 May;26(2):521-41, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/18514825\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nag DS, Sahu S, Swain A, Kant S. Intracranial pressure monitoring: Gold standard and recent innovations.\u00a0World J Clin Cases. 2019 Jul 6;7(13):1535-1553. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31367614\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bianchini L, de Matos PMPG, Roepke RML, Besen BAMP. Management of intracranial hypertension with and without invasive intracranial pressure monitoring. World J Crit Care Med. 2025 Sep 9;14(3):105645. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/40880574\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created Sep 18, 2019.<br \/>\nUp-date Jan 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75,74,73,63,62,72,71,70,69],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology","tag-icp","tag-indicaciones","tag-indications","tag-intracraneal","tag-intracranial","tag-monitoreo","tag-monitoring","tag-presion","tag-pressure"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10602,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/10602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}