Comparison of two antibiotic-impregnated ventricular catheters: A prospective sequential series trial

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 437-442

  Abla, Adib A ^a   Zabramski, Joseph M ^a   Jahnke, Heidi K ^a   Fusco, David ^a   Nakaji, Peter ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Catheters; Clindamycin; CSF infection; Minocycline; Rifampin

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CEFAZOLIN; CEFUROXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; MINOCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN TUMOR; BROTH DILUTION; CATHETER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DURAL ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; EXTERNAL VENTRICULAR DRAIN CATHETER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS INTRAPARENCHYMAL HEMORRHAGE; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CLINDAMYCIN; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINOCYCLINE; RIFAMPIN; VENTRICULOSTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951672716     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182039a14     Document Type: Article

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