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Proposal for the implementation and monitoring of a health care nursing protocol for patients with external ventricular drains [PDF]
Objective: To structure a proposal for implementing and monitoring the nursing care protocol for the safety of adult patients with external ventricular drains.
Sabrina Binkowski +6 more
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ABSTRACT Introduction The perioperative management of spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leaks (sCSFL) of lateral skull base remains under debate. We systematically synthesized and evaluated the current literature, to investigate the perioperative cranial‐pressure assessment protocols and relief methods.
Georgios Vavoulis +7 more
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Cerebrospinal fluid shunt infections and treatment
Serebrospinal şantlar hidrosefali yönetiminde önemli rol oynamaktadır. Serebrospinal sıvı şant enfeksiyonları, çocukluk döneminde serebrospinal enfeksiyonların önde gelen nedenlerinden birisidir ve uygun şekilde yönetilmez ise, artmış mortalite ve ...
Ümit Çelik, Emre Alhan
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Objective To screen factors influencing the neurological prognosis following lumboperitoneal shunt (LPS) in patients with hydrocephalus. Methods Total 136 patients who underwent LPS in Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University from October 2014 to ...
ZHAO Hao +5 more
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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt technology has undergone rapid advances in the past two decades. As a result, pediatricians and other primary care physicians are being asked with increasing frequency to provide care for persons with CSF shunts. Familiarity with the more common shunts is a prerequisite to intelligent management of shunt related problems.
C J, Sells, D B, Shurtleff
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Intraperitoneal cerebrospinal fluid pseudocyst with ventriculoperitoneal shunt
Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunting is mostly used in the treatment of hydrocephalus and many complications have been reported with this method. Abdominal Pseudocyst (APC) are relatively uncommon but important complications in patients with VP shunts.
Mohammad Sadegh Masoudi +3 more
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Encephalopathy: Cause, Pathogenesis, and Treatment
Various encephalopathies (sepsis‐associated, hepatic, hypoxic–ischemic, diabetic, uremic, toxic) have incompletely elucidated pathogenesis, which severely restricts targeted therapy development. Small molecule drugs show unique multitarget potential but face toxicity, poor blood–brain barrier penetration and unclear specificity.
Shimeng Lv +7 more
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Aim: We evaluated the treatment outcome of the patients having cerebrospinal fluid pseudocyst following ventriculo-peritoneal shunt. Materials and Methods: During the period of 1975 to 2005, 392 hydrocephalic patients underwent ventriculo-peritoneal ...
Laimer, E. +3 more
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International audienceBACKGROUND: Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is a cause of dementia that can be reversed when treated timely with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diversion.
Vivas-Buitrago, Tito +12 more
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Cerebrospinal fluid eosinophilia in children with ventricular shunts
OSINOPHILS are granulocytes produced in the bone marrow and normally found in mucosa. They have a myriad of functions associated with hypersensitivity and inflammatory reactions. Eosinophils are not normally present in the CSF.
AND Joel C Boaz, M.D Daniel H Fulkerson
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