The Utility of Lumbar Puncture After a Negative Head CT in the Emergency Department Evaluation of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.

Conclusions: LP in our cohort of neurologically intact CT-negative ED headache patients did not identify any cases of aneurysmal SAH but was associated with serious complications, a significant false positive rate, and extended ED length of stay. PMID: 29599652 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine - Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Yale J Biol Med Source Type: research