Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 49, Issue 6 , Pages 762-771, June 2007

Risk Factors for Traumatic or Unsuccessful Lumbar Punctures in Children

  • Lise E. Nigrovic, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Lise E. Nigrovic, MD, MPH, Division of Emergency Medicine, 300 Longwood Avenue, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Boston, MA 02115; 617-355-6624, fax 617-730-0335
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  • Nathan Kuppermann, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Davis, CA.
    • ,
  • Mark I. Neuman, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Received 5 April 2006; received in revised form 25 July 2006 and 5 October 2006; accepted 20 October 2006. published online 06 March 2007.

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 Funding and support: This work was supported by the National Research Service Award grand T32 HD40128-01 (Research Training Grant in Pediatric Emergency Medicine).Supervising editor: Kathy N. Shaw, MD, MSCEAuthor contributions: LEN and MIN conceived the study, designed the trial, and collected the data. LEN, NK, and MIN conducted the data analysis and drafted and revised the article. LEN takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Publication dates: Available online February 23, 2007.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(06)02450-4

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.10.018

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 49, Issue 6 , Pages 762-771, June 2007

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