WO2000068647A2 - Noninvasive monitoring of intracranial pressure - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to noninvasive medical diagnostics and, more particularly, to a noninvasive method of monitoring intracranial pressure.
- ICP intracranial pressure
- the normal ICP is between about 10 mm Hg and about 12 mm Hg.
- An ICP greater than about 20 mm Hg causes headaches.
- An ICP greater than about 40 mm Hg causes coma.
- a needle is inserted at the base of the spinal column, to monitor the pressure of the fluid in the spinal column. This pressure may not reflect accurately the ICP, because there may be a blockage between the patient's head and the base of the patient's spinal column.
- a second invasive method of monitoring ICP is to make a burr hole 10 mm in diameter in the patient's skull and to introduce a catheter to one of the lateral ventricles via the hole.
- the pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the ventricle is measured directly by a transducer via the catheter. This procedure may cause a hemorrhage that blocks the penetrated ventricle.
- CSF cerebrospinal fluid
- the catheter is held in place by a threaded fitting that is screwed into the patient's skull.
- a saline solution is introduced to the catheter and the pressure of the saline solution is measured using an appropriate transducer. If insufficient care is taken to preserve antiseptic conditions, this procedure may lead to infection of the patient's brain.
- the threaded fitting may penetrate the patient's brain, causing damage to the patient's brain.
- a fiber optic device with a sensor at the tip of a fiber optic cable, is inserted in the patient' s cerebral tissue, in the patient' s subdural space, or in the patient' s intraventricular epidural space. If a blood clot forms on the sensor, or if the fiber optic cable bends too sharply or breaks, the device may give a spuriously high pressure reading.
- the prior art invasive methods of measuring ICP are unreliable, may lead to infection, and can not be used for more than five consecutive days.
- the standard quantitative measure of the severity of coma is the Glasgow Coma Scale. See Mark S. Greenberg (ed.), Handbook ofNeurosurgery, 4 th edition (1988), vol. 2 p. 553.
- the score value of the scale ranges from 15 for a normal individual to 3 for a patient in deep coma.
- the prior art protocol is to start ICP monitoring if the score is 8 or less. It would be useful to monitor ICP of patients with scores higher than 8.
- Transcranial Doppler monitoring is a noninvasive technique that provides only qualitative indications of variations in ICP, not the quantitative measurements provided by the prior art invasive methods.
- a method for measuring intracranial pressure in a head of a patient including the head including a forehead and a bridge of a nose, including the steps of : (a) measuring, entirely from outside the head of the patient, at least one waveform representative of a pulsation of an anatomical feature in the head of the patient; (b) identifying a plurality of diagnostic features associated with the at least one waveform; and (c) inferring the intracranial pressure from the plurality of diagnostic features.
- the present invention is based on an empirical relationship between these shape pulsations and ICP.
- a waveform, or a series of waveforms, representative of the pulsation of the shape of one of these anatomical features is measured noninvasively, and the empirical relationship is used to infer ICP.
- the preferred anatomical feature is the third ventricle.
- the preferred modality for measuring the waveform is ultrasound.
- the preferred waveform is obtained by integrating ultrasound reflection traces within a predetermined gate corresponding to a reflection from the anatomical feature.
- a ratio of diagnostic times that characterize the waveform is determined.
- An empirical quadratic relationship between this ratio and ICP as measured by a prior art invasive method is used to infer ICP quantitatively.
- a second embodiment of the present invention several successive waveforms are received, over the course of at least one respiratory cycle.
- the shape of the corresponding respiratory wave, as reflected in the successive waveforms, is related qualitatively to the ICP.
- FIG. IA is a sketch of EPG waveforms over the course of several cardiac cycles
- FIG. IB is a sketch of an ECG trace synchronous with the waveforms of FIG IA
- FIG. 2 shows p as a function of tlT
- FIGS. 3A and 3B are sketches of waveform trains modulated by a patient's breathing.
- the present invention is of a noninvasive method of quantitative and qualitative monitoring of ICP.
- the principles and operation of noninvasive monitoring of ICP according to the present invention may be better understood with reference to the drawings and the accompanying description.
- a waveform is said to be representative of a pulsation of an anatomic feature if the shape of the waveform, as a function of time, is isomo ⁇ hic with the shape of the anatomical feature, as a function of time, up to a sign.
- the geometric dimensions of a patient's third ventricle increase and decrease in synchrony with the change in the patient's blood pressure over the course of the patient's cardiac cycle.
- a waveform whose amphtude increases as a corresponding dimension of the third ventricle increases, and whose amplitude decreases as that dimension of the third ventricle decreases, is said to be representative of the pulsation of the third ventricle over the course of the cardiac cycle.
- This isomo ⁇ hic representation is up to a sign, so a waveform whose amplitude decreases as a corresponding dimension of the third ventricle increases, and whose amplitude increases as a corresponding dimension of the third ventricle decreases, also is said to be representative of the pulsation of the third ventricle over the course of the cardiac cycle.
- the scope of the present invention includes the measurement of waveforms representative of any anatomical feature of a patient's head, including, for example, the frontal comum, the temporal cornum and the occipital cornum of the first and second ventricles, as well as the fourth ventricle, the preferred anatomical feature is the third ventricle.
- the scope of the present invention includes any noninvasive modality for measuring waveforms representative of pulsations of the target anatomical feature, the preferred modality is ultrasound.
- An ultrasound transducer is placed in contact with the patient's forehead. Pulses of ultrasound energy are introduced to the patient's head, in the saggital direction, using the transducer.
- FIG. 1 A shows two EPG waveforms 22a and 22b and a part of a third waveform 22c thus obtained, as a function of time.
- Each waveform 22 includes a monotonically rising portion 24 and a falling portion 26, with falling portion 26 including a venous output notch 28.
- Figure IB shows an ECG trace 30, synchronized with EPG waveforms 22, that includes several ECG pulses 32.
- the start of each waveform 22 is coincident with the end of the corresponding ECG pulse 32.
- the direction of movement is indicated by an arrow 70.
- the start of each EPG waveform 22 is delayed relative to the start of the corresponding ECG pulse 32 by a delay ⁇ .
- the best location for the ultrasound transducer on the forehead of the patient is from 2.5 centimeters to 6 centimeters above the bridge of the patient's nose.
- waveforms 22 that are diagnostic of ICP are two diagnostic times Tand t, shown in Figure IA with reference to waveform 22a.
- Diagnostic time Eis the duration of waveform 22, i.e., the duration of one cardiac cycle.
- Diagnostic time t is the length of time from the start of waveform 22 until the time, subsequent to the time of venous output notch 28, at which the amplitude of failing portion 26 returns to the amplitude of waveform 22 at the time of venous output notch 28. Because time t is shorter than the full duration of one waveform 22, time t is referred to herein as a "subduration".
- ICP p(t/T) - B
- the constant B is 9 mm H 2 O.
- p also is a constant, 373 mm H 2 O.
- p itself varies quadratically with t/T, as shown in Figure 2. Note that the units of the ordinate in Figure 2 are mm H 2 O.
- the train of waveforms 22 shown in part by Figure IA maybe modulated by that breathing. If the ICP is less than 15 mm Hg, the overall shape of the train of waveforms 22 is flat, as in Figure IA, over many cardiac cycles.
- the train of waveforms 22 is modulated by a respiratory wave (Greenberg, op. czt.,pp. 710-711). If the ICP is in the range of 20 to 40 mm Hg, the respiratory wave is in the form of a ⁇ -wave 40, as shown in Figure 3A.
- ⁇ -wave 40 includes cycles 42 of roughly equal periodicity that tend to have sha ⁇ peaks 44 and smooth troughs 46. Diagnostic features 42, 44 and 46 of ⁇ -wave 40 define the shape of ⁇ -wave 40 as roughly sinusoidal.
- the respiratory wave is in the form of a plateau wave 50, as shown in Figure 3B.
- the shape of plateau wave 50 is defined by a series of cycles 52, with each cycle 52 starting with a sha ⁇ rise 54 to a sha ⁇ peak 56, declining to a plateau 58, and then declining further to a baseline 60.
- Monitoring successive waveforms 22 over several respiratory cycles to observe the shape of the respiratory wave provides a qualitative indication of ICP .
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