11. For four months, doctors gave him a spinal tap twice a day to drain the fluids off his brain. 12. For example, one study that has been halted involved spinal taps on suicidal adolescents to monitor the levels of chemicals in their nervous systems. 13. He did a spinal tap. 14. He also underwent surgery and a number of spinal taps. 15. He under went five brain scans, seven spinal taps and seven blood transfusions. 16. Imagine two spinal taps. 17. It has been shown to reduce pain significantly in children undergoing insertion of an intravenous line, a spinal tap or aspiration of bone marrow. 18. Later, Robbins underwent a spinal tap. 19. Not after the battery of tests, CAT scans, an MRI and a spinal tap. 20. Ouma did a spinal tap on Simon and within minutes was able to confirm that he had cryptococcal meningitis. |