The Insertion and Management of External Ventricular Drains.
An Evidence-Based Consensus Statement from the Neurocritical Care Society. Read more here. Best regards, Riikka Takala.
Category: CSF Drainage
NCS – Consensus Statement on Management of EVDs
The full statement is available here: The Insertion and Management of External Ventricular Drains: An Evidence-Based Consensus Statement – A Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society. Published in Neurocritical Care 2016.
CSF Drainage – Continuous or Intermittent?
Intermittent versus continuous cerebrospinal fluid drainage management in adult severe traumatic brain injury: assessment of intracranial pressure burden. This small cohort study (n=62) from 2014 by Nwachuku EL suggests that continuous drainage is associated with better ICP-control. Read the abstract in Neurocritical Care.
