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External ventricular drainage following purulent meningitis with hydrocephalus in pediatric patients

2024-10-17

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background External ventricular drain (EVD) placement is standard of care in the management of purulent meningitis with hydrocephalus (PMH). However, there are no guidelines for EVD placement and management after PMH. Optimal EVD insertion location, techniques to reduce the risk of EVD-associated infection and methods of EVD removal are critical, yet incompletely answered management va...

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Literature Corpus work: 4102a83c-f8bc-521a-8b74-98e80e100283
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4945793/v1

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