Lumbar Puncture

It is in your patients interest that you correctly handle the CSF specimen. In summary get your sample to the lab as quickly as possible and remember to protect it from light.
The recent revised guidelines for the analysis of CSF for bilirubin in suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage recommend the following:

a 0.5ml CSF […]

New guidelines on testing cerebrospinal fluid, obtained at lumbar puncture, for evidence of bleeding into the brain have been published. They can be found in the Lumbar Puncture Directory. The guidelines have been issued by the UK NEQAS Specialist Advisory Group for EQA of CSF Proteins and Biochemistry, led by Anne Cruickshank […]