Why should we use atraumatic needles in lumbar puncture?

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...

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Main Author: Sandro Luiz de Andrade Matas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2013-09-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2013001000681&lng=en&tlng=en
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description 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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Why should we use atraumatic needles in lumbar puncture?
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
lumbar puncture
complication
headache
meningitis
atraumatic needles
puncao lombar
complicacao
cefaleia
meningite
agulhas atraumaticas
title Why should we use atraumatic needles in lumbar puncture?
title_full Why should we use atraumatic needles in lumbar puncture?
title_fullStr Why should we use atraumatic needles in lumbar puncture?
title_full_unstemmed Why should we use atraumatic needles in lumbar puncture?
title_short Why should we use atraumatic needles in lumbar puncture?
title_sort why should we use atraumatic needles in lumbar puncture
topic lumbar puncture
complication
headache
meningitis
atraumatic needles
puncao lombar
complicacao
cefaleia
meningite
agulhas atraumaticas
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