Abstract
Cerebral blood flow is elegantly balanced and stays consistent within a reasonably wide range of physiologic variations in blood pressure. This maintenance of stable perfusion is termed cerebral autoregulation. Intracranial pressure affects perfusion as the blood flow is in the closed and rigid cranium. All factors that affect any one of the components as well as those that compromise blood pressure and health of the blood vessels affect cerebral perfusion to varying degrees. In addition, drugs that affect either the blood pressure or the tone of the blood vessels also affect the pattern of perfusion within the cranial cavity.
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Madamangalam, A.S. (2017). Autoregulation Curves. In: Raj, T. (eds) Data Interpretation in Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55862-2_78
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