New England Journal of Medicine: Lumbar Puncture (Preview)

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This is a preview of the video "Lumbar Puncture", one of the titles from the New England Journal of Medicine's online medical procedures series "Videos in Clinical Medicine." Key words: spinal tap Video in Clinical Medicine New England Journal of Medicine lumbar puncture diagnostic therapeutic purposes spinal epidural anesthesia Analysis cerebrospinal fluid diagnosis infectious processes meningitis inflammatory diseases multiple sclerosis cancers leukemia metabolic processes Therapeutically intrathecal administration chemotherapeutic agents antibiotics contraindications cardiorespiratory compromise cerebral herniation, incipient herniation intracranial focal neurologic cranial CT intracranial pressure spinal hematoma coagulopathy anticoagulant therapy interventional radiologist spinal needle stylet collection tubes manometer sterile gloves spinous processes spine L4 spinous process interspace L3 L4 L4 L5 spinal cord. Palpate skin-marking pen chlorhexidine povidone-iodine local anesthetic sedation systemic anesthesia subcutaneously inferior spinous process umbilicus pencil sagittal plane dural sac spinal axis cerebrospinal fluid subcutaneous tissue supraspinous ligament interspinous ligamentum flavum, the epidural space internal vertebral venous plexus dura arachnoid subarachnoid nerve roots cauda equina needle-lock needle-stick injury osteoarthritis ankylosing spondylitis kyphoscoliosis degenerative disk disease anesthesiologist fluoroscopy-guided cerebellar herniation referred pain headache bleeding infection subarachnoid epidermal cyst leakage of spinal fluid neurologic examination retinoscopy subarachnoid epidermal cyst skin plug blood patch

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