How to monitor the brain in COVID-19 patients?. (April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Peluso, Lorenzo; Minini, Andrea; Taccone, Fabio Silvio
• Is Part Of: Intensive and critical care nursing. Volume 63(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-04
• Subjects: Intensive care nursing -- Periodicals; Critical Illness -- nursing -- Periodicals; Intensive Care -- Periodicals; Nursing Care -- Periodicals; Intensive care nursing; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 616.028
• DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2020.103011
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0964-3397

Abstract

Highlights: Due to the high occurrence of brain complications during COVID-19, monitoring of cerebral functions is necessary. Clinical examination should be routinely performed in all patients and used to decide for neuro-imaging, whenever necessary. In heavily sedated or paralyzed patients (i.e. unreliable clinical examination), non-invasive neuromonitoring could provide additional information on cerebral function of these patients. In daily practice, trained nurses could obtain relevant findings from cerebral ultrasound, cerebral near-infrared spectroscopy, quantified EEG and automated pupillometry to assess cerebral function in COVID-19 critically ill patients