How do you avoid brain damage inserting a cath into ventricles?

[theWUbear]

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Watching a youtube video on hydrocephalus ventriculoperitoneal shunting - you have to put the catheter through the brain matter into the ventricle - aren't you stabbing through cortex? is there risk of brain damage?

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb9dSjDykpI[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Winged Scapula]

Yes. And yes.

 

[theWUbear]

How does the neurosurgeon minimize risk of major complication due to cortical lesions?

 

[kedrin]

If it is the brains first time he probably sticks it in really slowly to avoid tearing.

 

[Rendar5]

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[Wordead]

The brain has silent areas

 

[Textbookversion]

If it is the brains first time he probably sticks it in really slowly to avoid tearing.

win

 

[Law2Doc]

Watching a youtube video on hydrocephalus ventriculoperitoneal shunting - you have to put the catheter through the brain matter into the ventricle - aren't you stabbing through cortex? is there risk of brain damage?
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you damage things anytime you put a catheter, needle etc through them. But it's a calculatedly small amount of damage. The benefit out weighs the risk. You have a lot of superfluous brain cells, so you can do fine losing a catheter tracts worth here and there.

 

[tiedyeddog]

If it is the brains first time he probably sticks it in really slowly to avoid tearing.

haha this is too good

 

[Anastomoses]

If it is the brains first time he probably sticks it in really slowly to avoid tearing.

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