Multicenter study

Retrospective cohort study

Intensive care medicine

Hydrocephalus

Surgery

Randomized controlled trial

External ventricular drain

Medicine

Journal of neurosurgery

Various strategies have been proposed to reduce the incidence of external ventricular drain (EVD)-related infections. The authors retrospectively studied the impact of EVD care management on EVD-related infections at 3 French university hospital intensive care units.

Strategies to reduce external ventricular drain–related infections: a multicenter retrospective study