Open AccessUltrasound-guided lumbar puncture improves success rate and efficiency in overweight patients
Author(s) -
Yi Li,
Raphael A. Carandang,
Swetha Ade,
Julie Flahive,
Kate Daniello
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
neurology. clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.674
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 2163-0933
pISSN - 2163-0402
DOI - 10.1212/cpj.0000000000000725
Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , body mass index , lumbar puncture , ultrasound , physical therapy , prospective cohort study , underweight , surgery , radiology , cerebrospinal fluid
Approximately 400,000 diagnostic lumbar punctures (LPs) are performed by neurologists yearly in the United States. There has been a transition from neurologists performing >40% of LPs 2 decades ago to now <15% of the time. High body mass index (BMI) is one of the key obstacles of LP for neurology residents, and the success rates drop to 58% when BMI is >35 kg/m 2 .