An Evaluation of the Camino Ventricular Bolt System in Clinical Practice

Abstract

The camino ventricular bolt system has been used to monitor intracranial pressure in patients after severe head injury. The correlation between the ventricular pressure measured with the Camino device and an external transducer showed that the Camino accurately measured intracranial pressure over a wide range, but that it read an average of 1.15 mm Hg higher than that obtained by the external transducer. The technique has the advantage over a remote transducer because it is sited within the ventricle. This may be of value in wave-form analysis.