title: Assessment of the CAMINO intracranial pressure device in clinical practice.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate reliability, handling characteristics and complication rate of the CAMINO-ICP-monitor-system in clinical routine. In a case controlled study 82 patients with intracranial pathology necessitating ICP-monitoring received either a ventricular or a parenchymal CAMINO-device. Clinical assessment of curve shape and apparent reliability of the measurement was documented. Probe position and presence of hematoma was evaluated in all patients with a CT after probe insertion. Handling complications, i.e. dislocation were recorded. At the end of the measuring period the drift of the probe was checked ex vivo and a two point calibration was performed using a water column. During one year 82 patients received 95 probes (parench, 73. ventric. 22). The average measuring period was 91.3 +/- 70.6 hrs. Catheter position was verified by CCT for 67 (70.5%) probes. 92.5% of the devices were placed correctly. Clinically 88.4% of the measurements were assessed plausible, in 8.2% the displayed ICP-values were judged to be too high, in 2.1% too low. Probe drift after explanation was -0.21 mmHg/24 hrs. The mean value of the recalibrated probes in the water column corresponding to 15.8 mmHg was 14.7 +/- 1.9 mmHg. There was no correlation between neither drift nor function in the water column and the duration of the measurement. Technical complications exclusively related to the construction of the CAMINO-system like kinking of the cable, dislocation (probe pulled out) or dislocated fixation screw were too high (25.3%).
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Klinikum Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schürer
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Münch
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Piepgras
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Weigel
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schilling
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schmiedek
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D006801:Humans; D007427:Intracranial Pressure; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D015203:Reproducibility of Results