Comparison of Complications in Patients Receiving Different Types of Intracranial Pressure Monitoring: A Retrospective Study in a Single Center in Switzerland

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 89, Issue , 2016, Pages 641-646

  Dimitriou, Julien ^a   Levivier, Marc ^a   Gugliotta, Marinella ^a,b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Hirslanden Andreasklinik   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Complication; External ventricular drainage; Infection; Intracranial pressure monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN TISSUE; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETERIZATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INTRACRANIAL CATHETER; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; INTRAPARENCHYMATOUS CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANAGED CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SWITZERLAND; TIME TO TREATMENT; VENTRICULOSTOMY CATHETER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SWITZERLAND; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 84953252113     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2015.11.037     Document Type: Article

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