Ultrasonography helps emergency physician identify the best lumbar puncture site under the conus medullaris.

Background: Ultrasonography - assisted lumbar puncture helps physicians identify traditional anatomical landmarks. However, it could help to overcome the anatomical dogmas and thus identify the best interspinous space under the medullary cone.

Methods: Traditional anatomical landmarks were reported on a tracing paper in patients with an indication for lumbar puncture.

Noninvasive End Tidal CO2 Is Unhelpful in the Prediction of Complications in Deliberate Drug Poisoning.

Study Objective: We study the performance of capnometry in the detection of early complications after deliberate drug poisoning.

Methods: This was a prospective cohort study of self-poisoned adult patients who presented at an emergency department (ED) between April 20, 2012, and May 6, 2014. Patients who ingested at least 1 neurologic or respiratory depressant drug were included.