Why should we use atraumatic needles in lumbar puncture?
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Diagnostic lumbar puncture is essential to the diagnosis of central nervous system infections, subarachnoid haemorrhage and others neurological diseases. Myeloradicular involvement or life-threatening adverse events due to the procedure are rare, but less severe complications are more frequent. Post-lumbar puncture headache is the most common complication, by spinal fluid leakage due to delayed closure of a dural defect. Therefore, the development of fine needles, with differentiated atraumatic bevel, has contributed to minimize that problem. These generically called atraumatic needles cause less deformation of the dura mater then the Quincke(®) ones. So, why don't we use these atraumatic needles?
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Opinion on Why should we use atraumatic needles in lumbar puncture?, by SLA Matas.
Dear editors, In his recent paper published in this journal, Matas addresses one important and well-studied aspect of postdural puncture headache prevention, i.e., the use of atraumatic spinal needles. On the other hand, when focusing on standard post-lumbar puncture recommendations, particularly 24 hours bed rest and controlled fluid ingestion, the author refers to four papers in which not onl...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
دوره 71 9B شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013