sEVD-smartphone-navigated placement of external ventricular drains.
Christian Valentin EisenringFelice BurnMichelle BaumannLennart H StieglitzRalf A KockroJürgen BeckAndreas RaabeMarkus F OertelPublished in: Acta neurochirurgica (2019)
By implementation of an innovative navigation technique, a conventional smartphone was used as a protractor for the insertion of EVDs. Our ex vivo data suggest that smartphone-guided EVD placement offers a precise, rapidly applicable, and patient-individualized freehand technique based on a standard procedure with a simple, cheap, and widely available multifunctional device.