Multimodal Monitoring in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: New Modalities and Informatics Challenges

We review several newer modalities to monitor the brain in children with acute neurologic disease in the pediatric intensive care unit, such as partial brain tissue oxygen tension (PbtO2), jugular venous oxygen saturation (SjvO2), near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), thermal diffusion measurement of cerebral blood flow, cerebral microdialysis, and EEG. We then discuss the informatics challenges to acquire, consolidate, analyze, and display the data. Acquisition includes multiple data types: discrete, waveform, and continuous.

Source: Seminars in Pediatric Neurology - October 30, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Zachary M. Grinspan, Steven Pon, Jeffrey P. Greenfield, Sameer Malhotra, Barry E. Kosofsky Source Type: research