How do you determine when to transition a patient with a shunt placed at birth to an adult provider?
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When do you transition care to and adult provider for patients with shunted hydrocephalus?
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Neurosurgery · Cook Children's Medical Center
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Ideally, when you have a pediatric patient with a longstanding shunt, you begin discussions with the family at the initial placement, helping them understand that a shunt is usually a lifelong device that will require follow-up in some manner the rest of the child's life. When the child is entering ...
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Neurosurgery · Stanford University
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Pediatric hospitals like to place the age up to 17 for hospitalization. Good to transition patients at this age.
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