Nursing Interventions Aiming to Prevent Increased Intracranial Pressure The aims of nursing care for patients with increased ICP include maintaining adequate cerebral perfusion, preventing further brain injury by maintaining ICP in the normal range, and controlling factors known to increase ICP [3,5,7,27]. Therefore, it is important to perform certain nursing interventions including ensuring adequate oxygenation, proper patient positioning, preventing isometric muscle contractions, avoiding the valsalva maneuver, minimizing no