Predicting difficult and traumatic lumbar punctures

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 608-611

  Shah, Kaushal H ^a   McGillicuddy, Daniel ^b   Spear, Jeffrey ^b   Edlow, Jonathan A ^b  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; PALPATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL PUNCTURE; SPINE;

EID: 34250852207     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2006.11.025     Document Type: Article

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