Barnett A. Greene
Barnett Alan Greene (1907-1999) American anaesthesiologist. Use of fine-gauge obstetric spinal needles and reducing post-spinal headache.
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Théodore Tuffier
Théodore Tuffier (1857–1929): Paris surgeon and innovator; thoracic/cardiac pioneer, early open-chest massage, valve experiments, spinal anaesthesia and Tuffier’s line.
Heinrich Quincke
German physician Heinrich Quincke (1842–1922) pioneered lumbar puncture and described Quincke’s pulse, oedema, triad, and more thus shaping modern clinical medicine
W. Essex Wynter
Walter Essex Wynter (1860–1945), Middlesex Hospital physician who pioneered incision-based lumbar thecal puncture and continuous CSF drainage for meningitis “cerebral pressure” (1889–1891).
Procedure: Lumbar Puncture
Emergency Procedure: Lumbar Puncture. This core skill is worth knowing inside out. You need the confidence to put the patient at ease and perform it well.
Procedure: Lumbar Puncture
Emergency Procedure: Lumbar Puncture. This core skill is worth knowing inside out. You need the confidence to put the patient at ease and perform it well.
Ultrasound for LP
Wendy Chang takes us through the use of ultrasound for lumbar puncture and how this should be used consistently, not just for difficult cases and field cases.
Nailing the paediatric Lumbar Puncture
Ahilan Parameswaran discuses the role of ultrasound in paediatric lumbar puncture.