title: Making sense of ... external ventricular drainage.
abstract: Raised intracranial pressure is a life threatening symptom. Its management can be facilitated by pressure relieving external drainage. This paper describes the physiology of raised pressure and the management of the drainage system.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gibson
mesh_terms: D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles; D004322:Drainage; D006801:Humans; D007427:Intracranial Pressure; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*