Table 2

Intracranial monitoring in children with cerebral malaria

Patient No		Time from start of treatment to monitoring (hours)		Duration of monitoring (hours)		ICP			CPP		No of mannitol infusions		Pattern of intracranial hypertension2-150
Patient No		Time from start of treatment to monitoring (hours)		Duration of monitoring (hours)		Opening (mm Hg)	Maximum (mm Hg)		Time spent > 20 mm Hg	Time spent > 40 mm Hg	No of mannitol infusions		Pattern of intracranial hypertension2-150	ICP waves	Opening (mm Hg)	Minimum (mm Hg)	Time spent < 50 mm Hg	Time spent < 40 mm Hg
1	3	10	10	16	0	0	None	54	54	0	0	0	MIH
2	2	20.5	15	19	0	0	None	(50)	55	0	0	0	MIH
3	32	22	16	17	0	0	None	64	64	0	0	0	MIH
4	23	9	10	17	0	0	None	48	40	6	0	0	MIH
5	28	31	6	20	< 0.1	0	None	84	51	0	0	0	MIH
6	18	20	11	23	0.2	0	None	58	51	0	0	22-151	MIH
7	6	39	20	35	0.1	0	None	40	40	1	0	0	MIH
8	10	30	14	54	0.4	0.1	None	72	43	0.1	0	0	MIH
9	8	22	7	24	< 0.1	0	None	70	60	0	0	0	MIH
10	16	18	14	?	?	0	None	75	?	?	?	0	MIH
11	15	18	14	26	0.2	0	None	(61)	46	0.6	0	1	MIH
12	4.5	18	14	22	0.5	0	None	(46)	36	10	3	1	IIH
13	9	18	21	30	0.75	0	None	54	42	0.1	0	3	IIH
14	42	50	21	31	2.0	0	None	49	45	0.1	0	1	IIH
15	29	66	15	56	3.65	0.1	None	69	31	0.1	0	3	IIH
16	16	23	20	43	1.5	0.1	None	72	43	0.7	0	1	IIH
17	1.5	20.5	23	56	6.8	0.3	None	57	45	0.5	0	1	IIH
18	8	36	32	32	14.5	0	None	43	35	17.8	0.7	2	IIH
19	49	32	28	49	21.9	0.9	None	51	34	3.6	0.3	6	IIH
20	13	122	13	95	63.2	13.9	B, T	60	32	23.9	1.4	26	SIH
21	22	92.5	9	> 60	> 30	?	B, T	42	< 30	> 6	?	8	SIH
22	7	4	28	42	4.0	0.75	None	50	18	1.75	1.25	2	SIH
23	10	16.5	25	158	7.3	4.5	B	55	2	3.3	3	5	SIH

↵2-150 Patterns of intracranial hypertension defined in the text: MIH = mild, IIH = intermediate, SIH = severe.
↵2-151 Mannitol administered on an empirical basis.
? Excessive drift during ICP monitoring, hence unable to determine accurately.