After shunt malfunction has been ruled out in children with craniofacial malformations with vomiting, it can be challenging to effectively communicate with front-line providers about their unique medically actionable causes of vomiting as compared to children whose shunts were placed for other reasons (eg, prematurity/intraventricular hemorrhage).
Solution:
An algorithm to facilitate communication “What we did that is new”: We developed an algorithm to facilitate communication regarding emergent evaluation of vomiting in this population.
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