Lumbar Puncture Treatment Report
What is Lumbar Puncture?
A lumbar puncture, also known as a spinal tap, is a diagnostic and at times therapeutic procedure that is performed in order to collect a sample of cerebrospinal fluid for analysis, or occasionally as a treatment to relieve increased intracranial pressure.
Reasons had & Efficacy
| Reasons had | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Other | 105 |
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16 |
| Support another treatment | 62 |
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12 | |
| Stiffness/Spasticity | 8 |
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2 | |||
| Sensation | 6 |
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1 | ||||
| Vision | 3 |
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1 | ||||
| Don't know | 3 | 0 |
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Side Effects
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Patient Evaluations
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- mark61
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Mild
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- mark61
- since Sep 02, 2008
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Efficacy
None
for Other
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Side Effects
None
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- Sallyboo
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: none
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- Sallyboo
- as needed
- since Sep 08, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for General health
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Side Effects
Moderate
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- webguy1958
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Severe
- Cognition: severe
- Vision: severe
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: severe
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: severe
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- webguy1958
- since Sep 29, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Sensation
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Side Effects
None
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Report created on November 21, 2009.