Infant LPs - Dr. Jeffrey Neal
12/31/19 • 18 min
"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.
Contact at [email protected]
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.
"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.
Contact at [email protected]
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.
Previous Episode
Multi-center Soft Tissue study w/ Dr. Samuel Lam
"When should I consider using Ultrasound when working up a child with a soft tissue infection?"
On the show today, we sit down with Dr. Sam Lam, recent research director for the P2 Network and PI of the multi-center pediatric soft-tissue ultrasound study, published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.
Works cited:
Lam SHF, Sivitz A, Alade K, et al. Comparison of Ultrasound Guidance vs. Clinical Assessment Alone for Management of Pediatric Skin and Soft Tissue Infections. The Journal of emergency medicine. 2018;
Mower WR et al. Effect of initial bedside ultrasonography on emergency department skin and soft tissue infection management. Ann Emerg Med 2019 Mar 26;
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