LiquoGuard® is the only CSF management system in the world that drains and simultaneously measures CSF pressure under controlled circumstances. The first generation was introduced in 2006 and to this day enjoys the highest level of popularity worldwide. Since 2011 the second generation, LiquoGuard® 7 , has been available, it extends the product range and has been setting new standards in CSF management.
The LiquoGuard® product line
The LiquoGuard® product line consists of LiquoGuard®, LiquoGuard® 7 and the extensive offering of accessories and consumables. Both systems handle fully automatic, volume-controlled or pressure controlled CSF drainage, and on request, also the infusion of fluid for support of normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) diagnosis.
In addition to all LiquoGuard® functions, LiquoGuard® 7 offers a number of new features that further increase patient safety and application safety, significantly reduce the number of alarm situations, facilitate evaluation of data, and enable connection to other systems (e.g. external ICP sensor or parenchyma sensor, printer, internal building call system).
Numerous ideas from practice users throughout the world were considered, in order to develop LiquoGuard® 7; your invaluable companion in the clinic.
- Significantly reduced weight
- Significantly extended battery runtime
- Intuitive operation
- Easy-to-clean touch display
- Stable stance, for safe transport through the clinic, also in the patient bed
- Enlarged display
- Improved suspension device
- Significantly extended interfaces to other systems
- Supplemental ventricular ICP probe (Spiegelberg, Raumedic) or
- Supplemental parenchyma probe (Spiegelberg, Raumedic)
- Printer
- USB data stick
- Diagnostic call system
- Patient monitor
- Modular concept so that you can extend your LiquoGuard® 7 with additional functions at any time.
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Expert´s opinion
Professor Stéphan Haulon
Vascular surgeon – Aortic Centre Hôpital Marie Lannelongue Université Paris Sud
"CSF drainage has become a safe adjunct to our complex aortic repairs since we have started using routinely the LiquoGuard® 7 system. It is a mandatory tool in the armamentarium to prevent spinal cord ischaemia, and the very accurate monitoring of pressure and volumes reduces the risks associated with CSF drainage."
Dr. Vincente Riambau
Chief of the Vascular Surgery Division– Hospital Clinic University of Barcelona, Spain
"Cerebrospinal fluid drainage is strongly recommended as a spinal cord protective strategy in open and endovascular thoracic aortic repair for patients at high risk of spinal cord ischemic injury.
Some concerns and complications have been related to conventional cerebrospinal fluid drainage.
Automatic drainage systems (such as the LiquoGuard®) allow the speed and amount of cerebrospinal fluid drained to be programmed in a controlled and safe way according to cerebrospinal fluid pressure, and guarantee appropriate spinal perfusion."
Dr. med. Manfred Kudernatsch
Schön Klinik Vogtareuth– Hospital for Neurosurgery and Epilepsy Surgery, Germany
"In none of the over 50 cases, the LiquoGuard® system caused any complications. Neither any over drainage, nor any over drainage-related complication that required surgical treatment, occurred. The advantages became even more visible, the more uncooperative, restless or mobile a child was. Neither coughing, crying/screaming, unintended change of position, epileptic seizures or extreme mobility led to uncontrolled CSF losses. In these situations, had the child been treated with a drip chamber, continuous supervision by nurses or parents would have been mandatory, since only the instantaneous closing of the drain would have prevented unintended loss of CSF. With transient post-surgical use of the LiquoGuard® system, it was possible to remove the external drains earlier. The daily drained volumes were in some cases significantly lower, since no intended CSF losses came on top of the actually required CSF drainage volume."