Brain 'dipstick' can spot dangerous energy drop

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3033, 2015, pág. 13
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • To check a car's oil levels, one can use a dipstick. To check the brain has enough energy, he might be able to do the same, using a probe that can monitor fluid in the brain. The goal is to save brain tissue, says Elham Rostami of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm Sweden. Rostami and 47 others published guidelines on how and when to use the technique, known as brain microdialysis, in the hope that more hospitals would adopt it.