====== 🧠 Postoperative Imaging After Ventricular Catheter Placement ======


✅ 1. Non-Contrast [[Head CT]] (immediate post-op, within 24 hours)
Purpose:

Confirm catheter placement within the ventricular system.

Evaluate for complications:
▸ Intracranial hemorrhage (intraventricular, intraparenchymal, subdural).
▸ Pneumocephalus.
▸ Malposition (e.g., catheter tip in brain parenchyma or outside ventricle).

Assessment Criteria:

Catheter tip ideally placed in the frontal horn of the lateral ventricle, near the foramen of Monro.

Check midline shift, ventricular size, and pericatheter hemorrhage.