Compensatory-reserve-weighted intracranial pressure versus intracranial pressure for outcome association in adult traumatic brain injury: a CENTER-TBI validation study

Frederick A Zeiler, Ari Ercole, Manuel Cabeleira, Erta Beqiri, Tommaso Zoerle, Marco Carbonara, Nino Stocchetti, David K Menon, Peter Smielewski, Marek Czosnyka

Abstract

Background: Compensatory-reserve-weighted intracranial pressure (wICP) has recently been suggested as a supplementary measure of intracranial pressure (ICP) in adult traumatic brain injury (TBI), with a single-center study suggesting an association with mortality at 6 months. No multi-center studies exist to validate this relationship. The goal was to compare wICP to ICP for association with outcome in a multi-center TBI cohort.