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Evaluation and Reconstruction of Alzahrawi’s Puncturing Instruments

open access: yesJournal of Research on History of Medicine, 2015
Shahram Bolandparvaz   +4 more
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Lumbar puncture

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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LUMBAR PUNCTURE

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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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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