Brain Tissue Oxygen Monitoring

An interesting article describing the potential application of brain tissue oxygen monitoring technology in the care of patients who have sustained traumatic brain injury (TBI) or subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) has been published in this month's Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America (June 2006). The article presents a review of the intracranial dynamics that are created by primary and secondary brain injury, and the challenges of optimizing oxygen delivery to the injured brain.