Cerebral Perfusion Pressure Monitoring

Definition

A surgical procedure used to monitor adequate blood flow to the brain for patients with either intracranial pathology or hemodynamic distress. Cerebral perfusion pressure is the difference between the mean arterial pressure, measured directly through hemodynamic means or indirectly using a blood pressure cuff, and the intracranial perfusion pressure, measured by a pressure-sensitive probe that is inserted through the skull.

Also known as Cerebral Perfusion Pressure Monitoring, Intracranial/cerebral perfusion pressure monitoring — per NCIT

Also identified as

• UMLS C0204908 per NCIT

Anatomy