Prolonged systemic antibiotics confer no additional protection against ventriculitis in patients treated with antibiotic-coated external ventricular drains

OBJECT: External ventricular drains (EVDs) are commonly used for CSF diversion but pose a risk of ventriculitis, with rates varying in frequency from 2% to 45%. Results of studies examining the utility of prolonged systemic antibiotic therapy for the prevention of EVD-related infection have been con...

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Veröffentlicht in:J Neurosurg
Hauptverfasser: Murphy, Rory K. J., Liu, Betty, Srinath, Abhinav, Reynolds, Matthew R., Liu, Jingxia, Craighead, Martha C., Camins, Bernard C., Dhar, Rajat, Kummer, Terrance T., Zipfel, Gregory J.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2015
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4677079/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25794343
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3171/2014.9.JNS132882
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