Elevation of the venous outflow resistance and a transient increase in cardiac output have to be considered as mechanisms for transduction of transthoracic pressure changes to intracranial pressure variations. We conclude, that trends of changes in elastance can be derived from intermittent airway pressure variations. This can be useful in easy and on line dynamic monitoring of ICP in traumatic brain injury.
Abstract-This paper introduces a modified enhanced transmissionline theory to account for higher-order modes while using a standard transmission line equation solver or equivalently a Baum, Liu and Tesche (BLT) equation solver. The complex per-unit-length parameters as defined by Nitsch et al. are first cast into an appropriate per-unitlength resistance, inductance, capacitance and conductance (RLCG) form. Besides, these per-unit-length parameters are modified to account for radiation losses with reasonable approximations. This modification is introduced by an additional per-unit-length resistance. The reason and explanations for this parameter are provided. Results obtained with this new formalism are comparable to those obtained using an electromagnetic full-wave solver, thus extending the capability of conventional transmission line solvers.
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