Efficacy of Lung and Inferior Vena Cava Sonography for Fluid Optimization

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in trauma patients. As the primary injury cannot be reversed, management strategies must focus on preventing secondary injury by avoiding hypotension and hypoxia and maintaining appropriate cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP), which is a surrogate for cerebral blood flow (CBF). The goal should be euvolemia and avoidance of hypotension. The assessment of a patient's body fluid status is a challenging task for modern clinicians. The use of Ultrasonography to assess body fluids has numerous advantages. The concept of using lung ultrasound for monitoring the patient is one of the major innovations that emerged from recent studies. Pulmonary congestion may be semiquantified using lung ultrasound and deciding how the patient tolerates fluid. Inferior vena cava (IVC) sonography and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has become widely used as a tool to help clinicians prescribe fluid therapy. Common POCUS applications that serve as guides to fluid administration rely on assessments of the inferior vena cava to estimate preload and lung ultrasound to identify the early presence of extravascular lung water and avoid fluid over resuscitation In this study we will use the measurements of both lung and IVC together to guide fluid dosage in critically ill patients with TBI. We will also use ONSD as a mirror for intra-cranial pressure (ICP).