Selected references on Intracranial Pressure Monitoring,
Cranio-Spinal Compliance and related topics

1. Miller, J.D.; Piper, I.R.; Statham, P.F.X.: ICP Monitoring: Indications and techniques. In: Narayan, R.K.; Wilberger, J.E.; Povlishok, J.T. Eds.: Neurotrauma, 1996,429-444
   
   
2. Chesnut, R.M.: Treating raised intracranial pressure in
   head injury. In: Narayan, R.K.; Wilberger, J.E.; Povlishok, J.T. Eds.: Neurotrauma, 1996, 445-469
   
   
3. Czosnyka, M.; Czosnyka, S.; Pickard, J.D.: Laboratory
   testing of the Spiegelberg Brain-Pressure Monitor: a technical report. J of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 1997, 63, 732-735
   
   
4. Marmarou, A.; Shulman, K.; LaMorgese, J.: A Compartmental analysis of compliance and outflow resistance and the effect of elevated blood pressure. Intracranial Pressure
   
   
5. Piper, I.; Spiegelberg, A.; Whittle, I.;Signorini, D.; Mascia, L.: A comparative study of the Spiegelberg Compliance Device with a manual volume-injection method: a clinical evaluation in patients with hydrocephalus. British J. of Neurosurgery,
   13(6), 1999, 581-6
   
   
6. Piper, I.R.; Miller, J.D.; Whittle, I.R.; Lawson, A.: Automated time-averaged analysis of craniospinal compliance. Acta Neurochir., Suppl. 51, 1990, 387-390.
   
   
7. Moskopp, D.: Footballs and the principle of intracranial compliance. Neurosurg. Rev. 17, 1994, 221-3
   
   
8. Whittle, I.; Piper, I.; Spiegelberg, A.: Experience using the Spiegelberg Compliance-Monitor in Patients with hydrocephalus. Zentralb. Neurochir. 1997 Suppl., 78
   
   
9. Raabe, A.; Stöckel, R.; Hohrein, D.; Schöche, J.: Reliability of intraventricular pressure measurement with fiberoptic or solid-state transducers: Avoidance of a
   methodologigal error. Neurosurgery, Vol. 42, No. 1, Jan. 1998, 74-80
   
   
10. Yau, Y.H.; Piper, I.; Clutton, R.E.; Whittle, I.R.: Experimental evaluation of the Spiegelberg intracranial pressure and intracranial compliance monitor. J Neurosurg, 93, 1072-1077, 2000
    
    
11. Lang J.; Beck, J.; Zimmermann, M.: Seifert, M.; Raabe, A.:Clinical evaluation of intraparenchymal Spiegelberg pressure sensor. Neurosurgery, 2003, 52, 1455-9
    
    
12. Chambers, I.R.; Siddique, M.S.; Bannister, K.R.; Mendelow, A.D.: Clinical comparison of the Spiegelberg intraparenchymal transducer and ventricular fluid pressure. J. Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 2001, 71, 383-385
    
    
13. Kiefer, M.: User Report on Spiegelberg Probe 3. Unpublished User Report from the University of Homburg, Germany
    
    
14. Yau,Y, Piper,I, Contant, C, Citerio, G, Kiening, K,
    Enblad, P, Nilsson, P, Ng, S, Wasserberg, J, Kiefer, M, Poon, W, Dunn, L, Whittle, I & the BrainIT Group: Multi-centre assessment of the Spiegelberg Compliance Monitor: Interim Results. Acta Neurochirurgica 2002 Suppl 81:167-170
    
    
15. Yau, Y.H; Piper, I.R.; Contant, C.F.; Dunn, L.T.;
    Whittle, I.R.: Clinical experience in the use of the Spiegelberg automated compliance device in the assessment of patients with hydrocephalus. Acta Neurochirurgica, 2002, Suppl. 81,171-172
    
    
16. Portella, G.; Cormio, M.; Citerio, G.: Continuous Cerebral Compliance monitoring in severe head injury: Its relationship with intracranial pressure and cerebral perfusion pressure. Acta Neurochirurgica, 2002, Suppl.
    81,173-176
    
    
17. Kiening, K.L.; Schoening, W.N.; Lanksch, W.R.; Unterberg, A.W.: Intracranial compliance as bed-side monitoring technique in severely head-injured patients. Acta Neurochirurgica, 2002, Suppl., 81,177-180
    
    
18. Yau, Y.H.; Piper, I.R.; Clutton, Whittle, I.R.: An experimental evaluation of a new intraparenchymal continuous compliance probe: Preliminary Ssudies. Acta Neurochirurgica, 2002, Suppl., 81,181-182
    
    
19. Kiefer, M.; Steudel, W.-I.: Moderne Hirndruckmessung, Grundlagen und Praxis. Unfallchirurg, 2002, 105, 578-586
    
    
20. Citerio, G.; Piper, I.: Monitoring of intracranial pressure and cerebral compliance. In: Vincent, J.-L. (Ed.): Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2002. Springer, 2002
    
    
21. Valentin, A.; Lang, T.; Karnik, R.; Ammerer, H.P.;
    Ploder, J.; Slany, J.: Intracranial pressure monitoring and
    case mix-adjusted mortality in intracranial hemorrhage.
    Crit. Care Med., 2003, 31, 1539-42
    
    
22. Kiening, K.L.; Schoening, W.N.; Stover, J.F.; Unterberg, A.W.: Continuous monitoring of intracranial compliance after severe head injury: relation to data quality, intracranial pressure and brain tissue PO2. British Journal of Neurosurgery,17, 2003, 311-318
    
    
23. Kiening, K.L.; Schoening, W.N.; Unterberg, A.W.: Continuous monitoring of intracranial compliance after severe head injury. Relation to intracranial pressure and patients´ age. Abstract , Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie, Saarbrücken, 2003
    
    
24. Chambers, I.R.; Kane, P.J.; Signorini, D.F.; Jenkins, A.; Mendelow, A.D.: Bilateral ICP monitoring: Its importance in detecting the severity of secondary insults. Acta Neurochir., 71, Suppl., 42-43
    
    
25. Brock, M.; Furuse, M.; Weber, R.; Hasuo, M.; Dietz, H.: Brain Tissue Pressure Gradients. In: Ponten, U.; Brock, M. (eds): Intracranial Pressure II, Springer 1975, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 215-217
    
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Selected references on antimicrobial EVD-Catheters

1. Anneke, A.: Infektiöse Komplikationen von Liquoraußendrainagen.
   Dissertation Universität Heidelberg, 1999
   
   
2. Guggenbichler, J.P.; Juhl, G.; Braun, G.G.; Fraß, M.; Künstle, O.A.;
   Plötz, J.; Saffartzik, W.; Steinhäuser, M.; Wenisch, C.: Clinical
   Investigation of a new Central Venous Catheter Impregnated with Silver
   Nanoparticles. Hyg Med 28, 2003, 228-34
   
   
3. Lozier AP, Sciacca RR, Romagnoli MF, Connolly ES
   Ventriculostomy-related infections: A critical review of literature.
   Neurosurgery 51, 2002, 170-182
   
   
4. Naegeli, C. v.:Über die oligodynamischen Erscheinungen an lebenden
   Zellen. Neue Denkschr. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Naturwiss. 33, 1893, 174 - 182
   
   
5. Pfisterer, W.;Mühlbauer, M.; Czech, T.; Reinprecht, A.: Early
   diagnosis of external ventricular drainage infection: results of a
   prospective study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 74, 2003, 929ö932
   
   
6. Thurmann, R.B.; Gerba, C.H.P.: The molecular mechanisms of copper and
   silver ion disinfection of bacteria and viruses. Crit. Rev.
   Environmental Control, 18, 1989, 295-315
   
   
7. Zabramski J.M.; Darouiche, R.O. et al.:  Efficacy of
   antimicrobial-impregnated external ventricular catheters: a prospective,
   randomized, controlled trial. J Neurosurg, 98, 2003, 725-730
   
   
8. Zschaler, R.: Testing of the Antimicrobial Effect of Catheter Tubing
   with a Roll Culture Method.
   
   
9. Kojic, E.M.; Darouiche, R.O.: Candida infections of medical devices.
   Clin. Microbiol. Rev., 17, 2004, 255-267