Clinical Conditions

Abstract

A key driver for research in cerebral autoregulation is the desire to understand how it is involved in pathophysiological conditions. There is the important question of whether measuring cerebral autoregulation, either at the bedside or during surgery, has clinical value and, if so, how such measurements can be potentially incorporated within decisions about therapy for particular patient groups. It is noticeable how recent studies have investigated a very wide range of clinical pathologies and how much more is known about these in the context of cerebral autoregulation than even just a few years ago. In this chapter, a wide range of clinical contexts will be examined, both `normal' physiological conditions and pathophysiological conditions.