medicineA personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience, who is a physician, of doing a lumbar puncture at a small hospital in Uganda.NagjiDepartmentAlimDepartmentEBSCO_AspCJEM: Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine
vascular injury, and loss of muscle strength. The incidence of transient adverseneurologic symptomsassociated with a continuous block is 0.4% to 0.5% with femoral catheters.51,57The rate of vascular puncture during placement of a femoral nerve block has been reported to be as high as 5.6%, bu...
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. sciatica a painful condition in the region of the thighs and hips caused by neuritis of the sciatic nerve in the back of the thigh. ...
Related to lumbar puncture:lumbar puncture headache LP See:Limited partner Copyright © 2012,Campbell R. Harvey. All Rights Reserved. Limited Partnership A business model in which at least onegeneral partnerand at least onelimited partnershare a business'ownership. In a limited partnership, the ge...
Fever and convulsionLumbar punctureMeningitisObjective: Febrile convulsion is the most common benign convulsive disorder in children. Meningitis is one of the most important causes of fever and convulsions, diagnosed by lumbar puncture (LP), a painful and invasive procedure much debated regarding its ...
For those of you just tuning in: sudden and very scary symptoms led me to the ER in Brooklyn, where they performed a lumbar puncture to rule out certain conditions. Truthfully, it was one of the most painful experiences of my life. It’s not supposed to be a painful procedure, but for...
Lumbar puncture is a procedure that is often performed in the emergency department to obtain information about the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Although usually used for diagnostic purposes to rule out potential life-threatening conditions (eg, bacterial m
Silberstein SD, Corbett JJ. The forgotten lumbar puncture. Cephalalgia 1993; 13:212-3.Silberstein S, Corbett J: The forgotten lumbar puncture . Cephalalgia 1993, 13 :212–213.Silberstein SD, Corbett JJ (1993) The forgotten lumbar puncture. Cephalalgia 13:212–213...
113 Other possible puncture sites are between the eighteenth thoracic and first lumbar vertebrae and between the first and second and third and fourth lumbar vertebrae, but not between the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae, which have a very narrow interspace. The puncture site (between L2 and ...
Repeated lumbar or ventricular punctures in newborns with intraventricular haemorrhage Background: Although in recent years the percentage of preterm infants who suffer intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH) has reduced, posthaemorrhagic hydrocephalus (PHH) remains a serious problem with a high rate of cerebra...