Intraparenchymal Neuromonitoring of Cerebral Fat Embolism Syndrome.

OBJECTIVES

We aimed to characterize the cerebrovascular physiology of cerebral fat embolism using invasive multimodal neuromonitoring.

DATA SOURCES: ICU, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

STUDY SELECTION: Case report.

DATA EXTRACTION: Patient monitoring software (ICM+, Cambridge, United Kingdom), clinical records, and surgical records.

DATA SYNTHESIS: None.

CONCLUSIONS

Our integrated assessment of the cerebrovascular physiology of fat embolism syndrome provides a physiologic basis to investigate the importance of augmenting mean arterial pressure to optimize cerebral oxygen delivery for the mitigation of long-term neurologic ischemic sequelae of cerebral fat embolism.