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Chapter 28 - A Neurosurgical Emergency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

By
Livia Procopiuc  and
Alison Pienaar
Edited by
Shelley Riphagen  and
Sam Fosker
Shelley Riphagen
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London and South Thames Retrieval Service
Sam Fosker
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London
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Summary

You have received a call from the paediatric registrar at one of the district general hospitals in the region. A 2-year-old, 11 kg boy was brought in by ambulance 1 hour ago after suffering his first episode of generalised tonic-clonic seizures at home.

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Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine , pp. 154 - 158
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Al Holou, WN, Wilson, TJ, Ali, ZS, et al. Gastrostomy tube placement increases the risk of ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection: a multiinstitutional study. J Neurosurg 2018;1:1–6.Google Scholar
Barnes, NP, Jones, SJ, Hayward, RD, et al. Ventriculoperitoneal shunt block: what are the predictive clinical indicators? Arch Dis Child 2002;87:198–201.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Chang, JJ, Avellino, AM. Shunt placement and management. In: Kumar, M, Levine, J, Schuster, J, Kofke, A. (eds) Neurocritical Care Management of the Neurosurgical Patient, Elsevier 2018:415–27.Google Scholar
Sivaganesan, A, Krishnamurthy, R, Sahni, D, et al. Neuroimaging of ventriculoperitoneal shunt complications in children. Pediatr Radiol 2012;42:1029–46.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
STRS Guideline: Time Critical Neurosurgical Transfer. www.evelinalondon.nhs.uk/resources/our-services/hospital/south-thames-retrieval-service/neurosurgical-transfer-mar-2018.pdf.Google Scholar
STRS Guideline: Hypertonic Sodium Chloride. www.evelinalondon.nhs.uk/resources/our-services/hospital/south-thames-retrieval-service/Hypertonic-Saline-2017.pdfGoogle Scholar

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