====== Cerebrospinal fluid overdrainage ======


see [[Shunt overdrainage]].

drip chamber falls to floor:

a) overdrainage, possible [[seizure]]s and/or [[subdural hematoma]] formation

b) solution: securely tape chamber to pole, bed-rail…, check position regularly.ç


Lobar hemorrhage at site remote from [[craniotomy]]. In a series of 37 patients, unlike hematomas at the craniotomy site, the following were identified as not being related to risk of hemorrhage:
HTN, coagulopathy, CSF drainage, underlying occult lesion following drainage of chronic
SDH , and cerebellar hemorrhage following pterional craniotomy
((Papanastassiou V, Kerr R, Adams C. Contralateral
Cerebellar Hemorrhagic Infarction After Pterional
Craniotomy: Report of Five Cases and Review of
the Literature. Neurosurgery. 1996; 39:841–852)) 
(this author incriminated possibly rapid overdrainage of CSF), or following [[temporal lobectomy]]
((Toczek MT, Morrell MJ, Silverberg GA, et al.
Cerebellar Hemorrhage Complicating Temporal
Lobectomy: Report of Four Cases. J Neurosurg.
1996; 85:718–722)).

[[Lumbar catheter]] CSF drainage