someone sent me a email about shaken baby syndrome and this sounds incorrect to me-i have a disabled baby who has had open heart surgery and this just dont add up.--"When we first arrived at the hospital they put a pressure gage into his head to moniter the Intercranial Pressure (The pressure that the brain is under due to swelling and Bleeding). He wasn't doing too well all day yesterday, his pressure in his head was ranging between 29-40 and the normal pressure is between 5-20. So doctors decided that the best thing to do was to put a tube into his brain to drain spinal fluid from his ventricle. This procedure was a sucess and brought the pressure down."
is there spinal fluid in your brain,and do we have ventricles up in our head?thats what i would like to know--thanks!
2007-06-06 07:31:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
hey sammie --aint my kid!!!
2007-06-08 07:51:58 · update #1
The ventricular system is a set of structures in the brain continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord.
In cases of hydrocephalus (a birth defect), a plastic tube called a shunt is used to drain excess cerebrospinal fluid from the brain and carry it to other parts of the body. This tube goes from the effected area of the brain, connects to a one-way valve which sits outside the skull, but beneath the skin, somewhere behind the ear. It then travels down the neck, and into either the abdominal cavity (most common), the pleural cavity (surrounding the lungs) (alternative), or into the atrium of the heart (quite rare). Enough tubing is left in the area it drains to, so that it can uncoil as the child grows.
Cerebrospinal fluid also occupies the ventricular system of the brain and the spinal cord.
Please see the web pages for more details on Vetricular system, Cerebral shunt and Cerebrospinal fluid.
2007-06-06 07:48:06 · answer #1 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's all pretty routine. There are ventricles, and the two lateral ventricles are pretty big. The entire brain and spinal cord are continuous and bathed in cerebrospinal fluid. It's all one system, completely connected, so that in most circumstances, when they don't need to put a bolt in the skull as they did in this baby, it's more usual to check on the brain by sampling the fluid with a spinal tap from way down low in the back.
Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction.
2007-06-06 14:50:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes Spinal Fluid can get into the brain, and yes there are drainage points or valves at the base of the brain. Very close to the nape of the neck.
Check out Arnold-Chiari Malformation
http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/40001206/
for more information
2007-06-06 14:40:39 · answer #3 · answered by Ann D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes there are ventricles and spinal fluid in, and around the brain....
2007-06-06 16:31:58 · answer #4 · answered by Daniel F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do an online search on the brain. You will be surprised at the information you fine.
2007-06-06 14:37:37 · answer #5 · answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thank goodness it isn'tyour child. You have a low life trailer trash attitude. LOL. Your attitude shows that you are in the rungs of life that you belong. By the way, did you sign up for your annual trip to Jerry Springer?
2007-06-06 15:13:12 · answer #6 · answered by sammie_miles 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think you should just pray that he is ok and then worry about how this happened. We only get 1 chance to be a parent and we have to make the best of it that we can. I would KILL someone for hurting my children. God Bless and I am praying for him to get well.
2007-06-06 14:38:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but for something this serious, I'd hope you have a backup plan to asking people on yahoo.
2007-06-06 14:34:38 · answer #8 · answered by John C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋