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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

277 patients in the community are having or have had Lumbar Puncture.

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Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 35 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major 63% 10
Moderate 6% 1
Slight 6% 1
None 13% 2
Can't tell 13% 2

Other

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 43% 15
Moderate 26% 9
Mild 11% 4
None 20% 7

Top reported side-effects include: Migraine Headaches, Very bruised, sore and stiff for a week after, Back pain

Summary results are based on 35 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 35)

  • mark61
    Sex: M
    Sensation: Mild
    Overall: Moderate
    Cognition: moderate
    Vision: moderate
    Speech: moderate
    Swallowing: moderate
    Upper limb: moderate
    Walking: moderate
  • mark61
  • by mark61
    Sep 02, 2008
  • EfficacyNone
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Other

  • Sallyboo
    Sex: F
    Sensation: Moderate
    Overall: Mild
    Cognition: moderate
    Vision: none
    Speech: moderate
    Swallowing: mild
    Upper limb: moderate
    Walking: moderate
  • Sallyboo
  • by Sallyboo
    Sep 08, 2008
  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsModerate
  • General health
Advice/Tips
relax afterward lay on you back

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Report created on November 07, 2009.