Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34131768›Full record

ArticleChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2021

"Shunt Pumping Test": role of practice on an experimental model.

Manish Sharma, Karthik Ram Mohan, Suman Kumar, Krishna M Kumar

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Manish SharmaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantt, New Delhi, India. manish_dwl@yahoo.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2325-9691
Karthik Ram MohanDepartment of Paediatrics, Command Hospital (EC) Kolkata, Kolkata, India.
Suman KumarDepartment of Clinical Haematology, Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantt, New Delhi, India.
Krishna M KumarDepartment of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Command Hospital (EC) Kolkata, Kolkata, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo ascertain the benefits of practicing shunt pumping test on a validated experimental model.

methodsA validated experimental model of shunt was used and 25 medical professionals were asked to assess the block in the model where artificial blocks were created. The assessment was repeated after the participants had practiced on the same model. The performance of participants before and after practice was compared and statistically evaluated.

resultsThe ability to predict the status of shunt showed an improvement in all scenarios after practice. The odds ratio for predicting a blocked shunt before and after practice was 7.25 (95% credible interval: 1.50-21.01). The odds ratio for predicting a functional shunt before and after practice was 8.81 (95% credible interval of 1.64 to 13.65).

conclusionPracticing on the experimental model significantly improves the ability to predict the status of shunt. Training of primary caregivers on similar shunt models based on the shunts used in respective centers can improve an early detection of shunt block and reduce reliance on more invasive and expensive evaluation modalities.

Indexed as

HydrocephalusProstheses and ImplantsCaregiversHumansModels, TheoreticalRetrospective StudiesVentriculoperitoneal ShuntBlocked shuntHydrocephalousManual chamber compression testVP shunt

Identifiers

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.