TY - JOUR
T1 - Preferred view and transducer in lumbar ultrasound in overweight and obese patients
AU - Farahmand, Shervin
AU - Safavi, Somayeh
AU - Shahriarian, Shahriar
AU - Arbab, Mona
AU - Basirghafoori, Hamed
AU - Bagheri-Hariri, Shahram
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, © The British Medical Ultrasound Society 2017.
PY - 2017/2/1
Y1 - 2017/2/1
N2 - Background: Ultrasound can be used to facilitate lumbar puncture, especially in obese patients. Methods: In this study, midline and paramedian approaches with curved and linear transducers were compared in patients with Body Mass Index (BMI) above 25 kg/m2 for the identification of spinal landmarks. In each view, six major landmarks, including spinous process, ligamentum flavum, laminae, epidural space, subarachnoid space and posterior longitudinal ligament, were detected by emergency medicine residents and were then reviewed by radiologists. Results: Sixty patients with a mean BMI of 29.18 enrolled in the study. This study showed that a curved transducer detected major landmarks more accurately compared to a linear transducer. There was also a poor kappa correlation between these transducers in the midline and paramedian approaches. Conclusion: This study showed that ultrasound can detect lumbar landmarks in overweight and obese patients, with the paramedian approach and a curved transducer being superior to the midline approach and a linear transducer in detecting these landmarks.
AB - Background: Ultrasound can be used to facilitate lumbar puncture, especially in obese patients. Methods: In this study, midline and paramedian approaches with curved and linear transducers were compared in patients with Body Mass Index (BMI) above 25 kg/m2 for the identification of spinal landmarks. In each view, six major landmarks, including spinous process, ligamentum flavum, laminae, epidural space, subarachnoid space and posterior longitudinal ligament, were detected by emergency medicine residents and were then reviewed by radiologists. Results: Sixty patients with a mean BMI of 29.18 enrolled in the study. This study showed that a curved transducer detected major landmarks more accurately compared to a linear transducer. There was also a poor kappa correlation between these transducers in the midline and paramedian approaches. Conclusion: This study showed that ultrasound can detect lumbar landmarks in overweight and obese patients, with the paramedian approach and a curved transducer being superior to the midline approach and a linear transducer in detecting these landmarks.
KW - Ultrasound
KW - lumbar puncture
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U2 - 10.1177/1742271X16689590
DO - 10.1177/1742271X16689590
M3 - Article
C2 - 28228824
AN - SCOPUS:85012124682
SN - 1742-271X
VL - 25
SP - 45
EP - 52
JO - Ultrasound
JF - Ultrasound
IS - 1
ER -