Pressure-controlled Drainage of Cerebrospinal Fluid: Clinical Experience with a New Type of Ventricular Catheter (Ventcontrol MTC) and an Integrated Piezo-resistive Sensor at Its Tip: Technical Note

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 216-218

  Piek, Jürgen ^a   Raes, Pieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b Architecture of Drägerwerk AG and Co KGaA   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intracranial pressure; Ventricular drainage; Ventriculostomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CATHETER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRANSDUCERS; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 0030032285     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199601000-00051     Document Type: Article

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