Does ultrasonographic imaging reduce the risk of failed lumbar puncture?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 33-34

  Swaminathan, Anand ^a   Hom, Jeffrey ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CATHETERIZATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EPIDURAL CATHETERIZATION; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE NEEDLE; MENINGITIS; NERVE BLOCK; NOTE; OBESITY; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TREATMENT FAILURE; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PROCEDURES; PUNCTURE;

CATHETERIZATION; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; SPINAL PUNCTURE;

EID: 84890796692     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.04.019     Document Type: Editorial

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