Lumbar puncture
126 results
1 - 100
Lumbar puncture 
Positioning for lumbar puncture in newborn infants
Best way to perform lumbar puncture and analyze results- Repeated lumbar or ventricular punctures in newborns with intraventricular haemorrhage
- No increased risk of spinal hematoma with lumbar puncture in adults with coagulopathy
- Plasma transfusions prior to lumbar punctures and epidural catheters for people with abnormal coagulation
- Ultrasound-assisted lumbar puncture more successful, less traumatic, less painful
- Head CT recommended before lumbar puncture in adults with suspected subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Use of platelet transfusions prior to lumbar punctures or epidural anaesthesia for the prevention of complications in people with thrombocytopenia
- Pharmacological interventions for the management of pain and discomfort during lumbar puncture in newborn infants
- Posture and fluids for preventing post‐dural puncture headache
- Intracranial aneurysm and subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH)
- Posture and fluids for preventing post-dural puncture headache
- Step-by-step approach to ruling out infant infection is accurate
- Drug therapy for preventing post‐dural puncture headache
- Drug therapy for treating post-dural puncture headache: Cochrane systematic review
- Drug therapy for preventing post-dural puncture headache
- Increased intracranial pressure
- LP of little value in children with complex partial seizures
- The rate of concomitant bacterial meningitis in infants with urinary tract infection is 0.25%
- Headache
- Needle gauge and tip designs for preventing post‐dural puncture headache (PDPH)
- Meningitis in children
- Diagnostic test accuracy of jolt accentuation for headache in acute meningitis in the emergency setting
- Epidural blood patching for preventing and treating post-dural puncture headache: Cochrane systematic review
- Updated PECARN rule has high negative predictive value for ruling out bacterial meningitis in febrile infants
- History and physical minimally helpful for diagnosing subarachnoid hemorrhage
- New diagnostic criteria for pseudotumor cerebri
- Needle gauge and tip designs for preventing post-dural puncture headache
- Drug therapy for treating post-dural puncture headache
- Bacterial Meningitis Score accurate in kids with suspected meningitis and CSF pleocytosis
- Encephalitis in children
- Diagnostic certainty for type of stroke requires neuroimaging
- Chemotherapy for second‐stage Human African trypanosomiasis
- Shunt complications in children
- Differential diagnostics of episodic symptoms
- Infants with ALTEs rarely have serious bacterial infection
- Antipsychotics for acute and chronic pain
- Multiple sclerosis (MS)
- Antioxidants, CoQ ineffective for patients with Alzheimer disease
- Lab-based prediction model can rule out serious bacterial infections in febrile infants
- Sweet solutions for needle-related procedural pain in infants below one year of age
- Low-risk criteria inaccurate in febrile neonates