Medical instruments and devices for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, namely, shunt valves, implantable patient monitoring sensors, systems for telemedical transport of patient data out of a patient's body to a respective responder comprised of a medical parameter sensor, a data storage device and a data transmitter, sold as a unit; equipment and components in the field of neurosurgery and hydrocephalus disease, namely, shunt systems comprised of medical tubing for drainage, transfusion and/or administration of drugs, medical connectors for connection of the shunt valve to the catheter system, and patient monitoring sensors for measuring pressure, temperature, position, movement, flow, partial oxygen saturation, and telemetry components, all sold as a unit