Bilateral External Ventricular Drain Placement and Intraventricular Irrigation Combined with Concomitant Serial Prone Patient Positioning: A Novel Treatment for Gravity-Dependent Layering in Bacterial Ventriculitis

A feared complication of ventricular access for drainage or shunting is ventriculitis. Early diagnosis and treatment is vital to prevent morbidity and mortality. Efficacy of directed antibiotic therapy in ventriculitis is limited by increasing multidrug resistant microorganisms and insufficient syst...

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Autores principales: Chan, Andrew K, Birk, Harjus S, Yue, John K, Winkler, Ethan A, McDermott, Michael W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
Materias:
Neurosurgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28533993
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1175

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28533993
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1175

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