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Neurosurgical patients often receive diuretics to treat cerebral edema and/or reduce intracranial hypertension.
Conversely, they may also require large amounts of intravenous fluid or blood as a part of resuscitation, therapy of
vasospasm, correction preoperative dehydration, maintenance of intraoperative and postoperative hemodynamic
stability.
Mortality :
Brain injury with :
Hypoxia : 56%
Hypovolemia : 64%
Hypoxia + Hypovolemia : 76%
Without hypoxia+Hypovolemia : 27%
Miller JD : Head injury and brain ischemia implication for therapy, Br. J Anaesth. 57 : 120 - 129 , 1985
Neurosurgical patients often receive diuretics (mannitol, furosemide) to treat cerebral edema and/or to reduce
intracranial hypertension.
Conversely, they may also require large amounts if intravenous fluid or blood as part of resuscitation, therapy for
vasospasm, correction preoperative dehydration, or maintenance hemodynamic stability.
If diuretics are good for patients, is it reasonable that fluids and volume expansion might be bad?
The general principles of fluid management often do not take into account the effect of fluids on cerebral
edema,cerebral perfusion, ischemic insult, and water and electrolyte homeostasis.
Proper fluids and electrolyte management neurosurgical patient requires knowledge of the patients underlying
pathophysiologic condition.
Effect of fluids differences between patients wit intact and disrupted Blood-Brain barrier.
Starlings Hypothesis
fluid movement due to filtration
across the wall of a capillary is
dependent on the balance between
the hydrostatic pressure gradient
and the oncotic pressure gradient
across the capillary.
Cottrell. Anesthesia and Neurosurgery, 2001 Cottrell. Anesthesia and Neurosurgery, 2001
Management of DI
Hourly monitoring of urinary output.
Maintenance fluids + 75% of previous hours urinary output or maintenance fluids + the previous hours
urinary output minus 50 ml
If urinary output > 300 ml/h : vasopressin or desmopressin.
Conclusion:
General suggestion of fluid management
Use no dextrose containing solution and hypoosmoler solution.
Limit the volume of lactated Ringers sol and use colloid and normal saline-lactate Ringer solution for volume
resuscitation
Limit hetastarch to 1-1.5 L (20 mL/kg) to avoid coagulopathy
No ideal fluid for resuscitation
Depend on serum electrolyte
Maintain hematocrit at 30 to 35%
Keep patient normovolemia, normotension, avoid hypoosmoler and hyperglycemia.
Result :
HES 130/0.4 HES 200/0.5
Hospital LOS ( days) 20.1 ( 15.4) 22.6 ( 11.8)
Mortality 4/16 3/15
Ventilation days 9.6 ( 7.8 ) 15.6 ( 6.2)
ICU days 12.7( 11.3) 19.5 ( 9.1)