Annals of Intensive Care

Table 3 Day 1 data of Transcranial Doppler measurements for the two groups of patients

From: Transcranial doppler assessment of cerebral perfusion in critically ill septic patients: a pilot study

	Sepsis group	Control Group	p values
VMCA systolic (cm/sec)	189 ± 13	153 ± 12	0.05
VMCA diastolic (cm/sec)	67 ± 6	61 ± 3	0.32
VMCA mean (cm/sec)	106 ± 7	91 ± 5	0.11
Pulsatility Index (PI)	1.15 ± 0.06	0.99 ± 0.04	0.04
Resistance index (RI)	0.64 ± 0.02	0.60 ± 0.01	0.17
CBFi	469 ± 115	521 ± 113	0.513

VMCA, velocity in middle cerebral artery; CBFi, cerebral blood flow index.

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