Figure 7.

Effects on cross-correlation of randomly permuting microdialysis (MD) data per patient. Cross-correlations of the lactate:glucose (LG) ratio (lines) vs. intracranial pressure (ICP) and cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) are shown as in Figures 5 and 6 shifted (lag hours) from -35 to + 35 hours around MD sample time. In addition, the analyses are performed with randomly permuted (scrambled) MD data per subject (dots), including a Monte Carlo-derived confidence interval (0.95). The correlations are little affected by scrambling subject MD hours in relation to their own ICP and/or CPP. The correlations above (ICP) and below (CPP) that of the per-subject scrambled data represent the added information in excess of a subject's LG ratio mean. A control randomly permuting data from all patients shows zero correlation as expected.