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Lumbar puncture

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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Puncture Wounds

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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Intraoperative ventricular puncture

Neurosurgery, 1988
Abstract Modem neuroanesthetic techniques frequently provide the neurosurgeon with adequate brain relaxation for an atraumatic frontotemporal or transylvian dissection. Circumstances such as recent subarachnoid hemorrhage with brain edema and acute hydrocephalus can mandate significant frontal lobe ...
J T, Paine, H H, Batjer, D, Samson
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LUMBAR PUNCTURE HEADACHE

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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Lumbar Puncture

Seminars in Neurology, 2003
Lumbar puncture is the original neurological procedure. The technique is learned by the student first through observation then performance under supervision by a physician who has mastered the technique. It is one of the more difficult procedures in medicine because success is not only dependent on the skill of the physician but also the size, anatomy,
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Femoral artery puncture

EuroIntervention, 2010
Introduction This is the third article in the EuroIntervention Tools & Techniques series and deals with the femoral artery puncture for percutaneous coronary intervention. The following is an overview of its management and highlights the salient technical features to be covered in the online version.
Michael, Haude   +3 more
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Postdural Puncture Headache

Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, 2013
Questions from patients about pain conditions, analgesic pharmacotherapy and responses from authors are presented to help educate patients and make them more effective self-advocates. The causes and presentation of postdural headache is described in response to a query from a patient about this syndrome and its management.
Raul, Calderon, David, Copenhaver
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Postdural Puncture Headache

Anesthesiology Clinics, 2006
Postdural puncture headache remains the most frequent complication of neuraxial anesthesia. It can occur following uncomplicated spinal anesthesia as well as unintended dural puncture during epidural anesthesia.The incidence following accidental dural puncture is not as high as previously thought--approximately 50%.
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Lumbar Puncture

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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Canine fossa puncture

The Laryngoscope, 1973
AbstractHistorically otolaryngologists have penetrated the maxillary sinus through the inferior meatus for purposes of irrigating the sinus. Van Alyea introduced the natural ostium canula, but my impression has been that most otolaryngologists continue the inferior meatus route.There are sufficient side effects of the inferior meatus technique ...
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