Medical Officer Handbook for Neurosurgery Department of Neurosurgery, Singapore General Hospital National Neuroscience Institute, Outram Campus Draft 2010 SY Lee S K Dinesh…

Slide 1GOOD MORNING! Thursday, February 2, 2011 Slide 2 Slide 3 CSF Shunts Used in the setting of hydrocephalus to divert CSF to another part of the body for absorption Proximal…

1. An Overview of Neurosurgery and Spina Bifida Joseph H Piatt, Jr, MD, FAAP Section of Neurosurgery 2. St Christopher’s Spina Bifida and Neurosurgery ¶ better CSF shunts…

1. Staphylococci 2. Morphology Gram positive cocci in clusters 3. Catalase: +ve (streptococci catalase –ve):Coagulase ve: S. aureus+ ve: CoNS- 4. Coagulase Test :Principle…

Slide 1 An Overview of Neurosurgery and Spina Bifida Joseph H Piatt, Jr, MD, FAAP Section of Neurosurgery Slide 2 St Christopher’s Spina Bifida and Neurosurgery ¶ better…

Signs of Hydrocephalus in babies and childrenInfection The most common complication of shunts is infection. Infections are most likely to happen within a few months of the