💉 Lumbar Puncture

# Preparation for the LP

Contraindications to LP (2017) 🌐 [full paper]

Periprocedural antithrombotic management for lumbar puncture (ABN, 2018) 🇬🇧 [full paper]
When to CT head before LP if suspecting bacterial meningitis
- USA (IDSA, 2004) 🇺🇸 [full paper]
- Sweden (2015) 🇸🇪 [full paper]
- Europe (ESCMID, 2016) 🇪🇺 [full paper]

# Performing the LP

How to perform the LP (video) (NEJM, 2006) 🇺🇸

Methods of reducing LP complications (2017) 🌐

📝 Forms

💡 Cognitive & Behavioural Neurology

Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) 🇨🇦
Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE) 🇬🇧
- Standardized Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE)
- Validation study

💊 Medications

🧪 Drug Interactions

Drug Interaction Checker (Medscape) 🇺🇸

🌀 Movement Disorders

Parkinson’s dopamine medication conversions for when NPO
- OPTIMAL Calculator (British Geriatrics Society) 🇬🇧
Levodopa Equivalent Dose Calculator (Parkinson’s Measurement)

🔬 Expert Resources

💪 Neuromuscular

Root vs Nerve (University of Alberta, 2014) 🇨🇦
Neuromuscular Disease Center website (Washington University) 🇺🇸

👁️ Ophthalmology

EyeWiki (American Academy of Ophthalmology, AAO) 🇺🇸

🩻 Neuroimaging

Radiopaedia 🌐

🩻 Neuroimaging

🧲 MRI

Phases of blood on MRI (Radiopaedia, 2015) 🇦🇺 [full article]
MRI imaging of acute stroke: DWI, ADC, T2 phases (2001) 🇺🇸 [full paper]

☢️ CT

Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score (ASPECTS) (2000) 🇨🇦
- ASPECTS discussion (Radiopaedia)
- ASPECTS calculator (MDCalc)

📈 Diagnostic Criteria

Listed by section alphabetically:

💡 Cognitive & Behavioural Neurology

Mild cognitive impairment
Dementia
- Alzheimer’s dementia
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Primary Progressive Aphasia
  - Agrammatical/Non-fluent variant
  - Semantic variant
  - Logopenic variant
  - Mixed
Autism spectrum disorder

💢 Headache

Primary headaches
- Migraine (ICHD-3, 2018) 🌐
- Trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TACs) (ICHD-3, 2018) 🌐

Secondary headaches
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) (2018) 🌐 [full article]

🌀 Movement Disorders

Hypokinetic movement disorders
- Parkinson’s disease (PD) (MDS, 2015) 🌐
- Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) (MDS, 2017) 🌐
- Corticobasal syndrome and degeneration (CBS & CBD) (2013) 🌐
- Multiple system atrophy (MSA) (MDS, 2022) 🌐

🧬 Neurocutaneous Disorders

Familial Tumour Syndromes
- Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) (2021) 🌐
- NF2-related schwannomatosis (formerly NF2 / Neurofibromatosis type 2) (2022) 🌐
- Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) (2021) 🌐
- von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL) (2022) 🌐

Vascular Neurocutaneous Syndromes
- Sturge-Weber Syndrome
- Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) (Curaçao criteria) (2000) 🌐 [full paper]
- Sneddon syndrome

🩸 Vascular Neurology

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA)
- MRI based (Boston 2.0 criteria) (2022) 🌐 [full paper]
- CT based (Edinburgh criteria)
Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS)
- RCVS2 clinical score (2019) 🇧🇷 [full paper]
- RCVS diagnostic criteria

🤝 Patient Resources

💢 Headache

Headache diaries (Migraine Canada) 🇨🇦

🩸 Vascular Neurology

Blood pressure diaries (Hypertension Canada) 🇨🇦

🌩️ Epilepsy

Lamotrigine titration schedules (OWP Pharmaceuticals) 🇺🇸 [full site]

🧑‍🎓 Educational Events

AJNR Case of the Week - neuroradiology weekly cases (American Journal of Neuroradiology, AJNR)
AAN Trivia Night - broad-topic neurology monthly virtual trivia event (American Academy of Neurology, AAN)
AAN Question of the Day - smartphone app with broad-topic neurology daily question (American Academy of Neurology, AAN)