Intracerebral abscess associated with the camino intracranial pressure monitor: Case report and review of the literature

Neurosurgery

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Morton, Ryan ^a   Lucas II, Timothy H ^b   Ko, Andrew ^a   Browd, Samuel R ^a   Ellenbogen, Richard G ^a   Chesnut, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscess; Camino; ICP monitor; Infection; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GENTAMICIN; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE PLUS SALBUTAMOL; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACEREBRAL ABSCESS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC;

EID: 84862834030     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318232e250     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Marmarou A, Anderson RL, Ward JD, et al. Impact of ICP instability and hypotension on outcome in patients with severe head trauma. J Neurosurg. 1991; 75(suppl 1):S59-S66.
2. Bullock R, Chesnut RM, Clifton G, et al. Guidelines for the management of severe traumatic brain injury. J Neurotrauma. 2000;17(6-7):451-627.
3. Adelson PD, Bratton SL, Carney NA, et al. Guidelines for the acute medical management of severe traumatic brain injury in infants, children, and adolescents, chapter 5: indications for intracranial pressure monitoring in pediatric patients with severe traumatic brain injury. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2003;4(3 suppl): S19-S24.
4. Taylor A, Butt W, Rosenfeld J, et al. A randomized trial of very early decompressive craniectomy in children with traumatic brain injury and sustained intracranial hypertension. Childs Nerv Syst. 2001;17(3):154-162. (Pubitemid 32203746)
5. Gambardella G, Zaccone C, Cardia E, Tomasello F. Intracranial pressure monitoring in children: comparison of external ventricular device with the fiberoptic system. Childs Nerv Syst. 1993;9(8):470-473. (Pubitemid 24029809)
6. Bray RS, Chodroff RG, Narayan RK. A new fiberoptic device: development of the ventricular bolt. In: Hoff JT, Betz AL, eds. Intracranial Pressure. Berlin, Germany: Sringer-Verlag; 1989;7:45-47.
7. Chambers KR, Kane PJ, Choksey MS, Mendelow AD. An evaluation of the Camino ventricular bolt system in clinical practice. Neurosurgery. 1993;33(5): 866-868. (Pubitemid 23314179)
8. Jensen RL, Hahn YS, Ciro E. Risk factors of intracranial pressure monitoring in children with fiberoptic devices: a critical review. Surg Neurol. 1997;47(1): 16-22. (Pubitemid 27009151)
9. Gelabert-González M, Ginesta-Galan V, Sernamito-García R, Allut AG, Bandin-Diéguez J, Rumbo RM. The Camino intracranial pressure device in clinical practice: assessment in a 1000 cases. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2006;148(4): 435-441.
10. Prabhu VC, Kaufman HH, Voelker JL, et al. Prophylactic antibiotics with intracranial pressure monitors and external ventricular drains: a review of the evidence. Surg Neurol. 1999;52(3):226-237. (Pubitemid 29440857)
11. Bavetta S, Norris JS, Wyatt M, Sutcliffe JC, Hamlyn PJ. Prospective study of zero drift in fiberoptic pressure monitors used in clinical practice. J Neurosurg. 1997;86 (6):927-930. (Pubitemid 27230134)
12. Luerssen TG. Fiberoptic intraparenchymal pressure monitoring for the measurement of intracranial pressure in children. In: Concepts in Pediatric Neurosurgery. Basel, Switzerland: Kager; 1990:204-213.
13. Piek J, Bock WJ. Continuous monitoring of cerebral tissue pressure in neurosurgical practice: experiences with 100 patients. Intensive Care Med. 1990; 16(3):184-188. (Pubitemid 20226773)
14. Poca MA, Sahuquillo J, Arribas M, Báguena M, Amorós S, Rubio E. Fiberoptic intraparenchymal brain pressure monitoring with the Camino V420 monitor: reflections on our experience in 163 severely head-injured patients. J Neurotrauma. 2002;19(4):439-448.
15. Shapiro S, Bowman R, Callahan J, Wolfla C. The fiberoptic intraparenchymal cerebral pressure monitor in 244 patients. Surg Neurol. 1996;45(3): 278-282.
16. Martínez-Mañas RM, Santamarta D, de Campos JM, Ferrer E. Camino intracranial pressure monitor: prospective study of accuracy and complications. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2000;69(1):82-86. (Pubitemid 30410419)
17. May AK, Fleming SB, Carpenter RO, et al. Influence of broad-spectrum antibiotic prophylaxis on intracranial pressure monitor infections and subsequent infectious complications in head-injured patients. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2006;7(5):409-417. (Pubitemid 44857094)
18. Stoikes NF, Magnotti LJ, Hodges TM, et al. Impact of intracranial pressure monitor prophylaxis on central nervous system infections and bacterial multi-drug resistance. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2008;9(5):503-508.
19. Gelabert-Gonzalez M, Serramito-Garcia R, García-Allut A, Cutrín-Prieto J. Management of brain abscess in children. J Paediatr Child Health. 2008;44(12): 731-735.
20. Hakan T, Ceran N, Erdem I, Berkman MZ, Göktas P. Bacterial brain abscesses: an evaluation of 96 cases. J Infect. 2006;52(5):359-366.