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Warning: The cannula is not suitable for MRI use!
This cannula is not suitable for inserting a catheter!
Indications
1. Lumbar puncture for:
– Obtaining a sample of CSF to aid the diagnosis of suspected CNS infec-
tion, suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage, neurological diseases
– Measurement of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure
– Therapeutic reduction of CSF pressure
2. Lumbar puncture to Inject dye (myelography) or radioactive substances
(cisternography) into cerebrospinal fluid for diagnostic imaging of the fol-
lowing conditions:
– Abnormalities of the spinal cord, the spinal canal, the spinal nerve roots
and the blood vessels that supply the spinal cord
– Spinal lesions caused by disease or trauma
– Tumours near the spinal cord
– Infection, inflammation of the arachnoid membrane that covers the
spinal cord
– CSF leakage
3. Lumbar puncture for:
– Obtaining a sample of CSF to aid the diagnosis of suspected CNS
malignancy
– Administration of chemotherapy into CSF in previously diagnosed
lyphoma and leukemia with CNS involvement or high risk for CNS
involvement
Contraindications
Device-specific contraindications
Under no circumstances is the device to be used in the event of known
material incompatibilities and/ or known interactions.
Clinical contraindications
Local infections of skin over proposed puncture site (absolute contraindication);
systemic infection (bacteraemia); raised intracranial pressure (ICP); exception is
pseudotumour cerebri; suspected spinal cord mass or intracranial mass lesion
(based on lateralizing neurological findings or papilloedema); poorly controlled
bleeding diathesis or anticoagulation; uncontrolled diabetes mellitus; spinal
column deformities (may require fluoroscopic assistance); allergy to local anes-
thetic (consider alternate class of anesthetic to which the patient is not allergic);
lack of patient cooperation.
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