This study supports the concept of cerebrovascular pressure reactivity-based individual optimal cerebral perfusion pressure. Driving cerebral perfusion pressure in excess of optimal cerebral perfusion pressure does not yield improvements in brain tissue oxygen after head injury and should be avoided, whereas cerebral perfusion pressure below optimal cerebral perfusion pressure may result in secondary cerebral ischemia.
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