Blood Pressure and the Brain: How Low Can You Go?

• Published in: Anesthesia and analgesia Vol. 128; no. 4; pp. 759 - 771
• Main Author: Drummond, John C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States International Anesthesia Research Society 01.04.2019
• Subjects: Arterial Pressure; Blood Pressure; Blood Pressure Determination; Brain - pathology; Brain Ischemia - pathology; Cerebrovascular Circulation; Homeostasis - physiology; Humans; Hypotension - physiopathology; Intraoperative Period; Monitoring, Intraoperative; Oximetry; Patient Positioning; Reproducibility of Results

There are occasionally intraoperative circumstances in which reduction of mean arterial pressure (MAP) to levels well below those that occur in nonanesthetized adults is necessary or unavoidable. In these situations, clinicians are inevitably concerned about the limits of the tolerance of the brain...