Intracranial Pressure Monitoring Using a Newly Developed Transducer-tipped Ventricular Drainage Catheter —Technical Note—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 238-240

  Kasai, Keiichiro ^a   Samejima, Hirotsugu ^a   Ueda, Morikazu ^a   Ushikubo, Yukio ^a   Yanai, Hiroyuki ^b   Kukita, Chikashige ^b   Kato, Tadahiro ^c  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Iwatsuki Neurosurgical Clinics   (Japan)

^c Kawasumi Laboratories Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

continuous monitoring; intracranial pressure; ventricular drainage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRAIN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; TRANSDUCER;

CATHETERIZATION; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DRAINAGE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0031948310     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.38.238     Document Type: Article

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