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Original lecture slide 41, Complications, with a DBS risk map panel and five complication category cards

COMPLICATIONS

  • Anticipate them, prevent them, recognize them early
  • DBS RISK MAP
  • BLEED
  • INFECTION
  • LEAD
  • NEURO
  • HARDWARE
  • THE COMPLICATIONS ARE NOT ONE CATEGORY
  • INTRACRANIAL — hemorrhage • infarct • seizure
  • NEUROLOGICAL — deficit • confusion • speech/gait effects
  • HARDWARE — malposition • migration • fracture • malfunction
  • WOUND — infection • erosion • CSF leak
  • STIMULATION — paresthesia • dysarthria • capsular effects
  • 2022 meta-analysis (21,261 patients): infection 4.2%, lead malposition 3.3%, hemorrhage 2.4%, revision 4.9%. Rates vary by study.
  • Dr Vikas Kathuria | MCh Neurosurgery

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AssociationModule 09 · Slide 41