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Quick hit: Ultrasound for a lumbar puncture
Coda Change
English - January 22, 2021 01:49 - 6 minutes - 5.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Science coda care covid19 harris icu carley codachange conference coronavirus critical Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Wendy Chang takes us through the use of ultrasound for lumbar puncture and how this should be used consistently, not just for difficult cases and field cases. Recent reviews have shown that using ultrasound for lumbar puncture has the potential to improve our success rate, decrease the rate of traumatic taps, decrease time to success, decrease needle passes and ultimately decrease the patients pain scores.