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Cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) is the net pressure of flow of the blood to the brain, which is the difference between the mean arterial pressure (MAP) and the intracranial pressure (ICP).
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Tye, G., Brown, J. (2018). Cerebral Perfusion Pressure. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_306
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