Nursing Management:
1. Teach the family about the management required for the disorder
a. Treatment is surgical by direct removal of an obstruction and insertion of shunt to provide primary drainage of the CSF to an extracranial compartment, usually peritoneum (ventriculoperitoneal shunt)
1. The major complications of shunts are infections and malfunction
2. Other complications include subdural hematoma caused by a too rapid reduction of CSF, peritonitis, abdominal abscess, perforation of organs, fistulas, hernias and ileus.
b. A third ventriculostomy is a new nonshunting procedure used to treat children with hydrocephalus.