CSF pressure reflects the intracranial pressure. Increase in intracranial pressure can be caused by tumor or mass in the brain, swelling of brain and bleeding into the brain, infection and ...

Spinal anesthesia: Numbing the lower half of the body by injecting into the spinal space before certain procedures Epidural anesthesia: Numbing the lower half of the body by injecting anesthetic agent ...

During a typical two-year treatment period, a child may undergo up to 20 LPs. However, traditional LP procedures can often be challenging, leading to traumatic lumbar punctures (TLPs)—procedures in ...

BANGKOK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PASS (Point-Assisted Spinal Sonography), an ultrasound-guided lumbar puncture device from Chula doctors and engineers, helps increase the precision and ...

Researchers support the increasing use of lumbar punctures (LPs) by memory clinics to collect cerebrospinal fluid, as long as certain risk factors are taken into account. They found that the procedure ...