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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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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1942
The use of lumbar puncture in the investigation of lesions of the central nervous system has become so standardized that it is almost as much of a routine procedure as the systematic study of the reflexes. The saying that "familiarity breeds contempt" may be aptly applied to this procedure, for one seldom considers that there is any real danger ...
MUNR O, W. G. HARDING
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The use of lumbar puncture in the investigation of lesions of the central nervous system has become so standardized that it is almost as much of a routine procedure as the systematic study of the reflexes. The saying that "familiarity breeds contempt" may be aptly applied to this procedure, for one seldom considers that there is any real danger ...
MUNR O, W. G. HARDING
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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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Pediatrics In Review, 1999
Puncture wounds are common in children, and most are uncomplicated. For children who have a delayed presentation or signs of infection, consider the possibility of a retained foreign body. The diagnosis of P aeruginosa osteochondritis should be considered in any child who exhibits persistent signs and symptoms after puncture wounds; timely use of ...
G, Baldwin, M, Colbourne
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Puncture wounds are common in children, and most are uncomplicated. For children who have a delayed presentation or signs of infection, consider the possibility of a retained foreign body. The diagnosis of P aeruginosa osteochondritis should be considered in any child who exhibits persistent signs and symptoms after puncture wounds; timely use of ...
G, Baldwin, M, Colbourne
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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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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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