Atraumatic (pencil-point) versus conventional needles for lumbar puncture: a clinical practice guideline

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• ² Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
• ³ Division of Neurosurgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
• ⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁵ Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine, Innlandet Hospital Trust-division, Gjøvik, Norway.
• ⁷ Division General Internal Medicine & Division of Clinical Epidemiology, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁸ Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine & Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada.
• ⁹ Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de Chaudière-Appalaches, Centre hospitalier affilié universitaire Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis, Lévis, Canada.
• ¹⁰ CHU de Québec - Université Laval Research Center, CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada.
• ¹¹ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.
• ¹² Research Centre, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.
• ¹³ Department of Anaesthesiology, Division of Emergency and Critical Care, Rikshospitalet Medical Centre, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
• ¹⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.
• ¹⁵ Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.
• ¹⁶ The BMJ (Research and Evaluation), London, UK.
• ¹⁷ Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ¹⁸ McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
• ¹⁹ Virginia, USA.
• ²⁰ Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ²¹ Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de la Capitale-Nationale, Québec City, Canada.
• ²² Department of Family and Emergency Medicine & Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care & Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Laval, Canada.
• ²³ Department of Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland.
• ²⁴ Department of Intensive Care, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ²⁵ Centre for Research in Intensive Care (CRIC), Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ²⁶ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada francois.lamontagne@usherbrooke.ca.