Trans Cranial Doppler (TCD)

APPLICATIONS OF
TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER ULTRASOUND
IN NEUROANESTHESIA

CONTENTS

1. Doppler ultrasound in medicine
2. Cerebral hemodynamics: physical principles and physiological factors
3. Techniques examining cerebral hemodynamics
4. Anesthetics and cerebral hemodynamics
5. TCD: Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography
6. History
7. Physical principles of Doppler and spectral analysis
.1. The Doppler effect
.2. The Doppler equation
8. Examination techniques
8.1. Window search
.2. Artery identification
.3. Normal values
.4. Doppler parameters
.5. Cerebral arterial blood flow velocity and cerebral blood flow
9. Transcranial Doppler in Neuroanesthesia
10. Refereneces