An external ventricular drain (EVD) is placed in patients with CT evidence of hydrocephalus or a depressed level of consciousness. Daily evaluation of laboratory chemistries is recommended to ...

All patients had an ICP monitor, and 33 (92%) had an external ventricular drain. Lumbar drains were used in four (11%) children, and a decompressive craniectomy was performed in 16 (44%).

Mayelin Valido Tejeda, a mother from Santa Clara, Cuba, has issued an urgent plea on social media to save her son, Caleb ...

After being transferred to Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre the baby had an external ventricular drain fitted to remove fluid from her brain before the tumour was removed during 12 hours of ...

Purpose To demonstrate the feasibility of the application of integrated flat detector (FD) CT and fluoroscopic guidance (iGuide) for the placement of external ventricular drains (EVD) within the ...

The patient was immediately transferred to a neurosurgical department for insertion of an external ventricular drain. Surgical repair of the dural defect was subsequently performed through an ...

Complications were classified as intracranial hemorrhagic, intracranial ischemic, extracranial hemorrhagic, and other (eg, external ventricular drain occlusion). Any new intracranial hemorrhage or ...

Thirty-seven patients (41%) presented with preoperative hydrocephalus, and 11 (12%) underwent external ventricular drainage or endoscopic third ventriculostomy prior to surgery. The median follow-up ...

VENTRICULAR fibrillation is usually a rapidly fatal arrhythmia that may occur in cardiac patients, in any patient under anesthesia and in drowning and electrocution. In cardiac patients it is a ...