AN EVALUATION OF THE CAMINO VENTRICULAR BOLT SYSTEM IN CLINICAL-PRACTICE

THE CAMINO VENTRICULAR bolt system has been used to monitor intracrani al pressure in patients after severe head injury. The correlation betw een the ventricular pressure measured with the Camino device and an ex ternal transducer showed that the Camino accurately measured intracran ial 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 techniqu e has the advantage over a remote transducer because it is sited withi n the ventricle. This may be of value in wave-form analysis.