"If I do an ultrasound before an LP on an infant, would that increase my success rate?"
On the show today, we sit down with Dr. Jeffrey Neal from Boston Children's Hospital to talk about The Effect of Bedside Ultrasonographic Skin Marking on Infant Lumbar Puncture Success: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
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Works cited:
Neal JT, Kaplan SL, Woodford AL, Desai K, Zorc JJ, Chen AE. The Effect of Bedside Ultrasonographic Skin Marking on Infant Lumbar Puncture Success: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Annals of emergency medicine. 2017
Kessler D, Pahalyants V, Kriger J, Behr G, Dayan P. Preprocedural Ultrasound for Infant Lumbar Puncture: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. 2018; 25(9):1027-1034.
Gorn M, Kunkov S, Crain EF. Prospective Investigation of a Novel Ultrasound-assisted Lumbar Puncture Technique on Infants in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. 2017; 24(1):6-12.