A recent study suggests that using an ocular ultrasound in the emergency room could help detect children with brain drainage ...

Whether you’re driving high power LEDs or trying to build protection into a power supply, current shunts are key to doing this. Resistors come in all shapes and sizes! With the theoretical side ...

Use of an eye ultrasound may quickly and safely identify children with brain drainage tube failure in the emergency department, according to a new study.

Eye ultrasounds provide a swift and secure means to detect brain shunt failure in children, facilitating crucial diagnosis ...

Blood is “shunted” from the portal venous system to another vessel, bypassing detoxification in the liver. These shunts can be present at birth (congenital) or acquired later in life. Continue reading ...

Inter-atrial shunts are small (5–10 millimeter diameter) permanent devices, placed in the heart via a minimally invasive ...

Children receive ventricular shunts for hydrocephalus, a condition where brain fluid doesn't drain or reabsorb properly from brain bleeds, tumors, or other causes. Nearly 30% of shunts break, are ...

Aqueous shunts are devices that, like surgical trabeculectomy, create an alternate path for aqueous humor to leave the anterior chamber of the eye and thus lower IOP. They were initially used for ...

Some cancers cause fluid to build up in the tummy (abdomen). The medical name for this is ascites. Your doctor might recommend that you have a shunt to drain this fluid. This is called a ...

The in-charge of a police station in Greater Noida has been shunted in the wake of the murder of a businessman’s minor son in the area, officials said on Monday. A departmental inquiry has also been ...

This review focuses on the randomized comparisons between aqueous shunts of different designs and between the shunts and surgical trabeculectomy, the current standard surgical treatment.

Inter-atrial shunts—investigational devices that create a small pathway for blood to pass from the left to the right side of the heart in order to improve heart failure symptoms and outcomes ...