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# Integra Recalls LimiTorr & MoniTorr Drainage Systems
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/integra-recalls-limitorr-monitorr-drainage-systems/
- Published: 2019-05-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T01:29:08.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Devices, #legacy-id-D5144194

Integra LifeSciences has recalled its LimiTorr and MoniTorr Drainage Systems due to complaints on “piece breaking off at connection point,” “broken manifold-stopcock,” “stopcock problem,” “connection where the external transducer is attached to the transducer holder bracket broke off,” and “transducer attachment on the LimiTorr/MoniTorr has cracked and was leaking.” “This breakage occurs when there is over-bending of the stopcock most often related to the use of LimiTorr or MoniTorr in combination with a Fluid Filled Transducer,” an [agency notice](https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/medical-device-recalls/lntegra-lifesciences-recalls-limitorr-volume-limiting-csf-drainage-system-and-monitorr-icp-external?ref=fdaweb.com) says.

The devices are used to monitor pressure inside the skull (intracranial pressure) and to drain cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from the brain to reduce intracranial pressure or provide temporary CSF drainage in patients with infected [CSF shunts](https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/implants-and-prosthetics/cerebral-spinal-fluid-csf-shunt-systems?ref=fdaweb.com). The devices can also be used for controlled CSF drainage from the lumbar subarachnoid space, according to FDA.

Device failure could result in infection (meningitis or ventriculitis), fever, headache, over drainage leading to subdural hematoma, over-drainage leading to the shifting of brain tissue (herniation), backflow of air leading to a condition in which air or gas is trapped within the intracranial cavity (pneumocephalus), or death, the recall notice says. Serious patient injuries associated with infection and CSF leakage were reported, but no deaths have yet been reported.