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External Ventricular Drainage (EVD) System
Audience: Qualified Nurses caring for patients with EVDs
Duration: 30 minutes
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the functions of Cerebrospinal Fluid and describe how it is produced and reabsorbed
- Explain the causes of Hydrocephalus
- Describe how EVDs are inserted and how they work
- Report the nursing responsibilities around monitoring patients with EVDs including being able to identify and manage potential complications
Resource details
| Contributed by: | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust |
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| Licence: | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International More information on licences |
| Last updated: | 24 October 2023 |
| First contributed: | 10 August 2022 |
| Audience access level: | Full user |
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