Examples of lumbar puncture

• Then another doctor explained that they would do a lumbar puncture.

• He didn't respond to the antibiotics, so they did a lumbar puncture and diagnosed pneumococcal meningitis.

• Diagnosis is made by lumbar puncture.

• Post-lumbar-puncture headache is an example precipitated by leakage from the punctured lumbar theca.

• Lumbar puncture should be performed when the baby is stable and there is clinical suspicion of meningitis but is not necessary in all cases of early-onset sepsis.

• Use of the decision rule to establish the indication of a lumbar puncture and empirical antibiotic treatment will reduce total costs by 10% compared with current practice.

• It is a complicated test involving a lumbar puncture.

• Lumbar puncture or surgical treatment may be required to prevent optic atrophy in cases of intracranial hypertension refractory to treatment with immunomodulators and steroids.

• We developed a diagnostic decision rule for the indication of a lumbar puncture and empirical treatment for bacterial meningitis (9;10).

• Five of these children underwent a second lumbar puncture which was negative bacteriologically.

• Results of a lumbar puncture test were negative.

• If diagnostic uncertainty remains, may need to perform lumbar puncture (to help exclude encephalitis or meningitis).

• If there has been no previous therapy, further investigation by lumbar puncture should be considered, or empirical treatment for neurosyphilis offered.

• If lumbar puncture is refused or impractical, then the patient should be considered for empirical treatment.

• Two had a negative lumbar puncture and all three were treated with penicillin.

• A lumbar puncture had actually been performed in 256 children (71%); 217 children had been hospitalized (60%).

• Serious bacterial infections in febrile infants and children selected for lumbar puncture.

• Time for a lumbar puncture was estimated to be fifteen minutes for a pediatrician and fortyfive minutes for a nurse.