Ventricle-peritoneal shunt (VP-shunt)
Insertion of a drain from the cerebral ventricles in the brain running to the peritoneum in the abdomen. This allows drainage of cerebrospinal fluid (csf) to treat hydrocephalus, an excess of csf in the brain
- Speciality Neurosurgery
- Urgency urgent
- Duration 45 min to 2 h
- Blood Loss minimal
- Anaesthesia General Anaesthetic
- Anaesthesia II General
- Nerve Blocks Local Anaesthetic Infiltration
- Procedures +/- Arterial line
- Pain mild-moderate (++)
- Post-op Pain Local up to 4-8 hours
- Post-op Pain II Tablets, Injection (im, iv)
- Hospital Stay Day Surgery (a few hours) to overnight stay
- Full Recovery 1 to 12 weeks
- Additional Info Recovery from the operation is rapid. Recovery from the hydrocephalus will depend on progress of the clinical condition and success of the drain.
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