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Old 03-08-2017, 02:30 AM
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Our hospital clinic usually has neurosurgery NPs reset valves, after MRIs or adjusting to a new pressure. They did that today, and last week, and last April (which was after an MRI), etc.. Sometimes a resident resets the valve but that last happened tens of resets ago.

Not all hospitals have the equipment for resetting a valve so we added a note to our child's medical file at our hmo as they don't reset valves. And insurance didn't always approve resets even tho they may have approved the MRI - they fixed that to preapprove three and we will hit that at MRI in April but they just did not get why it was a problem, wth?! And it is billed as an outpatient hospital procedure with a 100$ copay, what other outpatient procedure is a few minutes like that?

Just because it's possible does not make it a desirable frequent option as re programmable valves can become stuck. I've met a few parents of kids whose valves could never not be reset but they were stuck at the right setting putting off a revision. Some valves are sturdier in MRIs than others. Our docs estimate that our child's valve has 6-8 MRIs before expecting it to get stuck. They can get notably harder to reprogram after a few MRIs.
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