VentricuLostomy AssoCiaTed InfeCtions (LACTIC): Focus on CSF Lactate and Sampling Site

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patient or closest relatives do not understand written and spoken Danish or English
• •Patients transferred to Rigshospitalet with an EVD
• •Patients with brain injury due to existing brain infection (e.g., meningitis, intracranial empyema or abscess, encephalitis)
• •Patients with existing ventriculoperitoneal or ventriculoatrial shunt at the time of admission
• •Patients with primary or secondary brain cancer
• •Patients died or in palliative care