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Case of a Hypertensive Crisis in Diffuse Axonal Injury.
Air Medical Journal 2019 January
This case considers underdosing of analgesics as a prime contributor to hypertension in diffuse axonal injury (DAI) patients who are being mechanically ventilated. In the air medical environment, obtunded patients' hemodynamic parameters are the primary tools available in diagnosing complex disorders such as an acute rise in intracranial pressure (ICP) when invasive ICP monitoring is not available. Therefore, differential diagnoses must follow a continuum, from most severe to least, in order to deal with sudden-onset hypertension rapidly. Not until all critical differentials have been eliminated is analgesia considered. Mimicking the signs of ICP, a compensatory rise in the mean arterial pressure (MAP) is displayed in an acute pain response for mechanically ventilated patients. Therefore, poor analgesic coverage should be considered early in DAI patients who are being ventilated, especially when an increased metabolic drive may be occurring, forcing the therapeutic dosing intervals to be increased. This patient was transferred from Europe back to North America via a fixed wing aircraft, a 16-hour transport time.
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