Healio

Lumbar drainage linked to improved outcomes at 6 months after subarachnoid hemorrhage

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . EARLYDRAIN trial included 287 adults randomly assigned to receive lumbar drainage with standard care or standard ...
News Medical

Lumbar drain placement lowers postoperative CSF leak rate for patients undergoing endoscopic endonasal surgery

Winner of the Synthes Skull Base Award, Nathan T. Zwagerman, MD, presented his research, A Prospective, Randomized Control Trial for Lumbar Drain Placement after Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base ...
Healio

Prolonged drain usage after lumbar decompression, fusion may lead to longer length of stay

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Drains left in for longer periods or until there was less output after lumbar decompression and/or fusion did ...
Becker's Spine Review

Spine surgery techniques reshaping complication profiles for the better

Innovations in spine surgery are opening up new opportunities for patient quality and reducing complications. Surgeons say minimally invasive approaches have reduced wound drainage, infections and ...
Star Tribune

Medtronic faces FDA Class I recall for post-op drainage device

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class I recall, the agency’s most serious, for a Medtronic device used to temporarily drain spinal fluid from patients after surgery for a thoracic ...
Yahoo

Brain drain: How nasal and lymphatic drainage discovery could help end Alzheimer’s

A study is looking at how cerebral spinal fluid draining could be enhanced in older adults and the implications for neurodegenerative diseases. | Adobe.com Add this to the list of potential targets to ...