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The clinical usefulness of continuous intracranial pressure monitoring is examined in a series of 155 patients with a variety of conditions. Monitoring is of value in the following situations; after severe head injury, after intracranial surgery if complications are anticipated, in establishing the presence of raised intracranial pressure where other evidence is equivocal, in the evaluation of CSF shunts in a limited number of cases and in the diagnosis of “normal” and “low” pressure states. Treatment of intracranial hypertension in the individual patient is also best guided by continuous intracranial pressure monitoring.
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Johnston, I.H., Jennett, B. The place of continuous intracranial pressure monitoring in neurosurgical practice. Acta neurochir 29, 53–63 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01414616
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