Neurology

General Hospital Medicine

Questions discussed in this category

How would you approach the upfront management of a patient with acute unilateral vision loss with strong clinical risk factors for both cardioembolic stroke and GCA if an expedited MRI is not possible due to the presence of an AICD?

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Under what circumstances do you recommend POCUS guidance for lumbar puncture?

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Papers discussed in this category

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2019-01

Ultrasound-assisted Lumbar Punctures: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Neurology. Clinical practice, 2020 Aug

Ultrasound-guided lumbar puncture improves success rate and efficiency in overweight patients.

Cureus, 2020 Nov 18

Feel It, See It, Get It: Is Internal Medicine Residents' Use of Ultrasound in Lumbar Puncture Associated With Higher Success Rate?

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