How do you determine when to transition a patient with a shunt placed at birth to an adult provider?
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Neurosurgery · Cook Children's Medical Center
Ideally, when you have a pediatric patient with a longstanding shunt, you begin discussions with the family at the initial placement, helping them understand that a shunt is usually a lifelong device that will require follow-up in some manner the rest of the child's life. When the child is entering ...