title: Removal of adherent ventricular catheter.
abstract: The technique for freeing adherent ventricular catheters is described in which a Bugbee wire, insulated except for the tip, is used to deliver a monopolar coagulating current to the tissue adherent to the drainage holes of the catheter. This may have some advantage over the use of an uninsulated metal cannula for delivery of a unipolar diathermy cutting current. The technique described has permitted effective and safe removal of adherent ventricular catheters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, British Columbia's Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Steinbok
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Cochrane
mesh_terms: D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002648:Child; D004598:Electrosurgery / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D000267:Tissue Adhesions; D014696:Ventriculostomy / Q000295:instrumentation*