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It was reported that on (b)(6) 2017, the patient presented with vomiting and abdominal pain and without headaches or change in mental status.They were found to have a small-bowel obstruction and was brought to the operating room to determine the cause of the bowel obstruction and to rule out shunt infection.The patient had a laparotomy where 2 pieces of the ventriculoperitoneal (vp) shunt tubing were exteriorized.One was dripping cerebrospinal fluid, and the other was with no evidence of any drainage.The doctor obtained a stat cerebrospinal gram stain and culture to evaluate for infection.The cerebrospinal fluid sent from the operation revealed no evidence of infection, with a negative gram stain and clean profile; however, on the morning of (b)(6) 2017, the cerebrospinal fluid from that surgery began growing staphylococcus.The patient's left parietal vp shunt was removed and replaced with a left parietal external ventricular drain.They also underwent iv antibiotic therapy after the picc line was placed as well as required a platelet transfusion prior to the procedure.
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