{"id":194,"date":"2011-06-05T21:20:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T20:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/?p=194"},"modified":"2013-02-27T14:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T13:45:34","slug":"lp-post-seizure-do-white-cells-indicate-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2011\/06\/05\/lp-post-seizure-do-white-cells-indicate-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"LP post-seizure &#8211; do white cells indicate infection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Lumbar Puncture. You should know this.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.information-leaflets.stft.nhs.uk\/stft-leaflets\/leafletpotfolder\/public_leaflet_pot\/Having%20a%20Lumbar%20Puncture_files\/anaes%20lumbar%20puncture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"57\" \/>Obviously, I&#8217;m excluding the rather large proportion of my workload where the presence of white cells in the CSF indicate metastatic disease &#8230; but in normal children, if you did an LP on a child after a seizure and got a total white cell count of 19, would you be treating for meningitis?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I have to say, I would. But there are a team from Australia that are considering the question: until then, what will you be doing?<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, I&#8217;m excluding the rather large proportion of my workload where the presence of white cells in the CSF indicate metastatic disease &#8230; but in normal children, if you did an LP on a child after a seizure and got a total white cell count of 19, would you be treating for meningitis? [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2011\/06\/05\/lp-post-seizure-do-white-cells-indicate-infection\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1578,81,504,247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-brain-injury","category-diagnostics","category-infection","category-lp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}