Lumbar Puncture

Lumbar Puncture Guideline for You to Copy and Use

I’ve written my own guideline for doing Lumbar Puncture for my own hospital.  This should reflect best practice.  You can copy this for your own hospital, and adapt it where necessary.  Please remember to quote your source - it is copyrighted, but available for free so long as www.lumbarpuncture.net is acknowledged in your guidance.  Remember that this site contains video links from YouTube so that you are left in no doubt what an LP entails.  Patient information sheet will follow next week.

Here’s the link to the LP Guideline - right click here, then save target as….