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Intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring has become routine in many neurosurgical units. However, the procedure of ventriculostomy is invasive and carries risks. A search for alternative techniques of ICP monitoring has shown that some alternatives are less reliable than fluid-filled ventricular catheters: subdural screws and fluid-filled catheters under-read ICP, especially when it is high (Mendelow et al. 1983; Barlow et al. 1985); by contrast, subdural catheter-tipped transducers are accurate when compared to fluid-filled ventricular catheters (Barlow et al. 1985). The aim of this study was to compare pressure readings from a ventricular catheter with those from a Camino catheter tipped transducer.
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Chambers, I.R., Mendelow, A.D., Sinar, J., Modha, P. (1989). Clinical Evaluation of the Catheter Tipped Camino Transducer Inserted via a Subdural Screw. In: Hoff, J.T., Betz, A.L. (eds) Intracranial Pressure VII. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73987-3_4
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