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Nursing Standard, 2008
This article discusses the need for lumbar puncture, preparation of the patient and equipment necessary for this procedure. The rationale for the intervention is described with a focus on the nursing management before, during and after the procedure.
Farley, Alistair, McLafferty, Ella
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This article discusses the need for lumbar puncture, preparation of the patient and equipment necessary for this procedure. The rationale for the intervention is described with a focus on the nursing management before, during and after the procedure.
Farley, Alistair, McLafferty, Ella
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1952
The occurrence of undesirable reactions following lumbar puncture is not uncommon. The incidence has been variously reported as ranging between 5 and 75%.1A prominent feature of the postlumbar puncture reaction, and often its only manifestation, is headache.
D, SCIARRA, S, CARTER
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The occurrence of undesirable reactions following lumbar puncture is not uncommon. The incidence has been variously reported as ranging between 5 and 75%.1A prominent feature of the postlumbar puncture reaction, and often its only manifestation, is headache.
D, SCIARRA, S, CARTER
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Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 1997
In this article it is argued that Heinrich Irenäus Quincke who should be credited with the discovery of lumbar puncture. Although some authors mention the names of James Leonard Corning and Walter Essex Wynter as well, it is demonstrated, by comparing the relevant publications, that the discovery, the application for diagnostic purposes and the ...
J A, Frederiks, P J, Koehler
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In this article it is argued that Heinrich Irenäus Quincke who should be credited with the discovery of lumbar puncture. Although some authors mention the names of James Leonard Corning and Walter Essex Wynter as well, it is demonstrated, by comparing the relevant publications, that the discovery, the application for diagnostic purposes and the ...
J A, Frederiks, P J, Koehler
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Lumbar Punctures and Meningitis
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1975Four patients, with an additional seven from the literature, had meningitis following a lumbar puncture (LP) that disclosed normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Animal studies demonstrate that perforation of the meninges in the presence of bacteremia enhances the development of meningitis.
G W, Fischer +3 more
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The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1985
Lumbar puncture has been in widespread clinical use for nearly a century. It is used in emergency medicine primarily as a tool for the diagnosis of meningoencephalitis and subarachnoid hemorrhage. The development of computed tomography has changed the position that lumbar puncture has held in the diagnostic sequence of a number of clinical entities ...
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Lumbar puncture has been in widespread clinical use for nearly a century. It is used in emergency medicine primarily as a tool for the diagnosis of meningoencephalitis and subarachnoid hemorrhage. The development of computed tomography has changed the position that lumbar puncture has held in the diagnostic sequence of a number of clinical entities ...
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Cephalalgia, 1993
Lumbar puncture is crucial in two distinct clinical situations in the diagnosis of the headache patient. The first is the patient who is suspected of having a symptomatic headache; the second is the patient with a chronic intractable or atypical headache disorder. This review discusses the usefulness of the lumbar puncture in the diagnosis of headache
S D, Silberstein, J J, Corbett
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Lumbar puncture is crucial in two distinct clinical situations in the diagnosis of the headache patient. The first is the patient who is suspected of having a symptomatic headache; the second is the patient with a chronic intractable or atypical headache disorder. This review discusses the usefulness of the lumbar puncture in the diagnosis of headache
S D, Silberstein, J J, Corbett
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COMPLICATIONS OF LUMBAR PUNCTURE
Neurologic Clinics, 1998Abstract Although neurologists often evaluate the surgical complications of other physicians, they are responsible for complications of the lumbar puncture, the quintessential neurological procedure. Headache is the most common complication, usually lasting for 1 week or less, occurring in up to 40% of patients after lumbar puncture ...
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Lumbar Punctures and Meningitis
Pediatrics, 2002To the Editor .— In their article about the timing of lumbar puncture (LP) in bacterial meningitis, Kanegaye et al1 recommend delaying administration of antibiotics until cultures have been taken. We would like to point out that where meningococcal meningitis is suspected, this potentially life-threatening delay may be neither appropriate nor ...
A J, Kvalsvig, D J, Unsworth
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Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal
Lumbar puncture (LP) is a procedural skill that is required for practice in the emergency care setting, most often for diagnostic purposes. Rarely, it can also be used therapeutically, to alleviate the pain of patients presenting to the emergency department with acute headache from idiopathic intracranial hypertension. In either case, LP constitutes an
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Lumbar puncture (LP) is a procedural skill that is required for practice in the emergency care setting, most often for diagnostic purposes. Rarely, it can also be used therapeutically, to alleviate the pain of patients presenting to the emergency department with acute headache from idiopathic intracranial hypertension. In either case, LP constitutes an
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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1951
One of the controversial subjects in anesthesia has been that of the incidence and specificity of neurological sequelae attributable to spinal anesthesia.1Various complications are cited by opponents of the method. These include headache, diplopia, backache, paresthesias in the legs, paralysis or weakness of muscles, usually in the legs, and infection ...
R D, DRIPPS, L D, VANDAM
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One of the controversial subjects in anesthesia has been that of the incidence and specificity of neurological sequelae attributable to spinal anesthesia.1Various complications are cited by opponents of the method. These include headache, diplopia, backache, paresthesias in the legs, paralysis or weakness of muscles, usually in the legs, and infection ...
R D, DRIPPS, L D, VANDAM
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