Techniques to increase lumbar puncture success in newborn babies

Lumbar puncture is an essential tool for diagnosing meningitis. Neonatal lumbar puncture, although frequently performed, has low success ...

Neonatal lumbar puncture, although frequently performed, has low success rates (50-60%). Standard technique includes lying infants on their side and removing ...

Techniques to increase lumbar puncture success in newborn babies

Lumbar puncture is an essential tool for diagnosing meningitis. Neonatal lumbar puncture, although frequently performed, has low success rates (50–60%).

Optimising Lumbar Puncture Technique in Newborns (NeoCLEAR)

Sitting position is a cost-neutral, safe, well-tolerated, and easily-learned technique which can improve LP success in newborns. These ...

Techniques to increase lumbar puncture success in newborn babies

Neonatal lumbar puncture, although frequently performed, has low success rates (50–60%). Standard technique includes lying infants on their side and removing ...

Assessment of infant position and timing of stylet removal to improve ...

The technique used for infant lumbar puncture has remained essentially unchanged since its first description in 1891. Published success rates ...

Techniques to increase lumbar puncture success in newborn babies

We conducted the Neonatal Champagne Lumbar punctures Every time – An RCT (NeoCLEAR) trial to determine the optimal LP technique in neonates in terms of the ...

658 Trends and techniques in infant lumbar puncture

The success rate is highly variable, between 50–70%, and many infants require multiple attempts.1 Haemorrhagic cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is often the result of ...

Assessment of infant position and timing of stylet removal to improve ...

Our results demonstrate clear evidence of benefit for sitting position: babies allocated to sitting had significantly higher rates of successful lumbar puncture ...

Positioning for lumbar puncture in newborn infants - Pessano, S - 2023

Compared to sitting position: lateral decubitus position may result in little to no difference in successful lumbar puncture procedure at the ...

Lumbar punctures in newborn babies are more successful when ...

Holding babies in a sitting position when carrying out a lumbar puncture was significantly more successful than a lying position. A first lumbar ...

Lumbar puncture (LP) for neonates - Safer Care Victoria

In term infants the seated position has been shown to be the best tolerated and to also have the best chance of obtaining CSF. Consider pain relief for the ...

Lumbar puncture position in infants—a systematic review and meta ...

Few observational studies assessing the success rate between different positions have found that sitting position might have a higher success ...

Clinical Practice Guidelines : Lumbar puncture

replace stylet (this may reduce risk of headache), and remove needle and stylet together; apply brief pressure to puncture site. Send specimens urgently to lab; ...

Safety and Success of Lumbar Puncture in Young Infants - Frontiers

The likelihood of performing an LP seems reduce with decreasing birth weight (5–7). Indeed, a recent study from the United States reported that even in ...

Improving practice using the wrapped tucked position for lumbar ...

In the wrapped tucked position the baby is able to settle and a successful lumbar puncture is more likely. wrapped technique can be used on all babies whether ...

Improving Lumbar Puncture Success Rates in Febrile Neonates

To increase the overall lumbar puncture success rate (where cerebrospinal fluid [CSF] is obtained and suitable for cell count, including ...

FEvIR Citation - 38149666 Techniques to increase lumbar puncture ...

Neonatal lumbar puncture, although frequently performed, has low success rates (50-60%). Standard technique includes lying infants on their side ...

How to do a neonatal Lumbar Puncture - YouTube

In this video we show you the steps of performing a lumbar puncture on an infant.

Assessment of infant position and timing of stylet removal to improve ...

methods to improve lumbar puncture success in the paediatric population, having recruited 1082 infants from 21 UK centres. A 2 × 2 factorial ...