The Risks and Benefits of Lumbar Puncture

There are rare serious risks, but those are very rare. Some of the other risks are that if you attempt it and you aren't able to interpret it or you're not able, it was not successful,. That's been shown in the literature to result in more hospitalizations. The idea is that then you sort of may, which means you may do lumbar puncture or you may engage them around this decision and see.