Special Features:

Sterile; disposable; csf-flow control shunt assembly includes regular contoured valve with integral csf-cardiac/peritoneal catheter; barium impregnated; 4 slit openings in catheter wall; 3 length markers 10 cm spacing from tip; low pressure

Properties:

An item designed for use in neurosurgical procedures for shunting cerebrospinal fluid from the ventricles of the brain. It has multiple small perforations near the tip to facilitate drainage of cerebrospinal fluid (csf) and to help reduce clogging of the catheter lumen. Excludes catheter, shunt, aneurysum and catheterization set, shunt.