Ultrasound-Assisted Lumbar Puncture: a Randomized Controlled Trial
| Status: | Not yet recruiting |
|---|---|
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 18 - Any |
| Updated: | 5/26/2017 |
| Start Date: | May 25, 2017 |
| End Date: | May 2018 |
| Contact: | Michael P Boniface, MD |
| Email: | Boniface.Michael@mayo.edu |
| Phone: | 904-953-2000 |
Ultrasound-localized Landmark Identification in Hospitalized Patients Requiring Lumbar Puncture: Implications for Safety, Quality, and Procedural Success
Our study will be designed to answer the question, "Is an ultrasound-guided approach to
performing lumbar punctures more safe, efficacious, or efficient than the traditional
landmark-guided approach for practicing neurologists?"
performing lumbar punctures more safe, efficacious, or efficient than the traditional
landmark-guided approach for practicing neurologists?"
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Patients who registered for an emergency or inpatient encounter between 5/22/2017 and
5/08/2018
2. Males or females 18 years of age or older
3. Patients who have been identified as requiring a lumbar puncture for any therapeutic
or diagnostic or therapeutic indication, as decided by the neurology staff
physicians, residents, or advanced practice providers.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Patients who are not capable of providing consent for participation in research and
do not have an authorized relative or power of attorney to consent in their stead.
2. Patients who require lumbar puncture in an emergency, time dependent fashion and in
whom a possible delay could conceivable have a negative clinical impact.
3. Patients with known abnormal lumbar spinal anatomy or prior extensive surgical fusion
such that fluoroscopic or CT guidance is determined to be more clinically appropriate
by the treating physicians.
4. BMI greater than 60
5. Absolute contraindication to lumbar puncture such as uncorrected coagulopathy
We found this trial at
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4500 San Pablo Rd S
Jacksonville, Florida 32224
Jacksonville, Florida 32224
(904) 953-2000
Phone: 904-953-2000
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