The nurse is caring for a child with a closed head injury. The child's blood pressure is 120/58 mmHg, and intracranial pressure is 16 mmHg
What is this child's cerebral perfusion pressure? (Enter numeric value only. Calculate to the nearing hundredth decimal point.)
84.67
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Cerebral perfusion pressure is calculated by subtracting the mean intracranial pressure from the mean arterial pressure or MAP – ICP = CPP. To calculate mean arterial pressure, the nurse should subtract the diastolic blood pressure from the systolic blood pressure and divide the result by 3 and then add that sum to 80 . For this patient, the MAP would be calculated as being (120 – 58) / 3 + 80 = 100.67 . To calculate the cerebral perfusion pressure, take the value of the mean arterial pressure and subtract the child's intracranial pressure or 100.67 – 16 = 84.67 . The child's cerebral perfusion pressure is 84.67.
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