CPP full form in medical is Cerebral perfusion pressure. If you aren’t already familiar with perfusion pressure, we’d like to tell you that it is a type of blood pressure that is required to push the blood through the vessels of a specific organ or region of the body. And in the case of CPP, we are talking about perfusion pressure which is required to maintain the blood flow to the brain. In certain cases, maintaining a specific amount of blood pressure in an organ or brain can help the medical professional keep the patient alive while performing the treatment.
The normal perfusion pressure for the brain to function is around 60 to 100 mmHg, and depending upon every individual patient’s case, the medical professionals may increase or decrease the cerebral perfusion pressure. For example, if there is internal bleeding in the brain if the doctor or surgeons keep the cerebral perfusion pressure constant, then intracranial pressure will start to increase which can be life-threatening for the patient. And that is because if there is internal bleeding, there is no way for blood to leak out of the body, which ultimately results in the increase of intracranial pressure.