The watershed program offers technical assistance to watershed groups, municipalities, and individual citizens. A watershed is a geographic area of land across which water, and the sediments and dissolved materials it contains, flow on their way to a single common outlet -- a stream, lake or river.
What is Lumboperitoneal Shunt? Lumboperitoneal (LP) shunt is an artificial connection created by neurosurgeons which allows excess of cerebrospinal fluid to leave the subarachnoid space and enter the peritoneum. From there, the fluid is easily absorbed and eliminated via the circulatory system and the kidneys.
What is Removal of LP shunt? A lumboperitoneal or lumbar-peritoneal shunt (LP shunt) is used in neurological disorders; it is used to treat chronic increased intracranial pressure to drain excess cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Complications may arise and may warrant a removal or revision of the LP shunt. See patients taking Removal of LP shunt.