The advantages of a ventriculostomy reservoir with the Holter valve system.
The use of a Rickham ventriculostomy reservoir incorporated in the Holter valve system is advocated. In a retrospective study of 173 button tape, the clinical assessment of the valve was proved correct in 51% of occasions and in a prospective review of 100 taps the clinical findings were correct in 53%. The complication rate of tapping the reservoir is negligible.
D002404:Catheterization; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000601:surgery*; D008365:Manometry; D012189:Retrospective Studies