Juvenile Postlumbar Puncture Headache After Puncture With Needles With Quincke Tip or With Sprotte Tip

Heidelberg University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Headache

Treatments: Device: lumbar puncture with Quincke-design needles; Device: lumbar puncture with Sprotte-design needles

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00450060

PLPH-01/07

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare postlumbar puncture complaints as headache or backache after lumbar puncture with needles with Quincke design or with Sprotte design in children and adolescents.

Full description

After lumbar puncture patients may develop complaints as position dependent headache, other headache or backache. Several though not all studies in adults showed that the frequency of complaints can be reduced by using non-traumatic Sprotte-design needles instead of cutting Quincke-design needles. In children and adolescents there are no comparable data published. In most pediatric hospitals in Germany Quincke needles are used.

Comparison: Children and adolescents from 4 to 18 years of age who have to undergo a lumbar puncture are randomly attributed to puncture with Quincke needle or with Sprotte needle. During the following days headache (main criterium), position-dependent headache, backache, vomitus, and malaise are noted. Pain is measured with a visual analogue scale/faces scale.

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• lumbar puncture necessary for diagnostic reasons

Exclusion criteria

• intrathecal instillation at lumbar puncture
• patients in whom severity of disease make it impossible to judge endpoint criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind