# Does Static Ultrasound-Preview Reduce the Incidence of Difficult Lumbar Puncture?

> **NCT00317382** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center** · enrollment: 60 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Headache
- Meningitis
- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

## Interventions

- **DEVICE:** Ultrasound

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00317382
- **Lead sponsor:** St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2004-12
- **Primary completion:** 2005-10
- **Final completion:** 2005-10
- **Target enrollment:** 60 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** We could not get physicians in the ED to enroll patients.
- **Last updated:** 2015-02-19


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00317382

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00317382, "Does Static Ultrasound-Preview Reduce the Incidence of Difficult Lumbar Puncture?". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-02 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00317382. Licensed CC0.

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