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Anaesthesia for VP Shunt Surgery


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1 Department of Anaesthesia, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
2 Department of Anaesthesia, Government Medical College, Jammu, India
 

VP Shunt is one of the most commonly performed neurological surgeries.The patients undergoing this procedure may vary in age from neonates to elderly; they may be fully conscious or neurologically impaired. Knowledge of specific considerations of these patients will help the anesthesiologist to manage these patients in a better way.

Keywords

Hydrocephalus, VP shunt, Neuroanaesthesia
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Authors

Summit Dev Bloria
Department of Anaesthesia, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
Pallavi Bloria
Department of Anaesthesia, Government Medical College, Jammu, India
Ketan Kataria
Department of Anaesthesia, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

Abstract


VP Shunt is one of the most commonly performed neurological surgeries.The patients undergoing this procedure may vary in age from neonates to elderly; they may be fully conscious or neurologically impaired. Knowledge of specific considerations of these patients will help the anesthesiologist to manage these patients in a better way.

Keywords


Hydrocephalus, VP shunt, Neuroanaesthesia