{"id":53,"date":"2009-04-04T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/?p=53"},"modified":"2009-04-04T18:00:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T17:00:04","slug":"q-parental-presence-and-lumbar-punctures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2009\/04\/04\/q-parental-presence-and-lumbar-punctures\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Parental presence and lumbar punctures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/121\/264310181_b560f21baf_s.jpg\" alt=\"Scar from LP\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/>Does having the a worried mum or fretful dad in the room with you make a lumbar puncture less likely to succeed? It&#8217;s an interesting question, and one that has been posed following an evening on call in Yorkshire. What&#8217;s the opinions of folk out there &#8211; and any evidence that you can quote to substantiate them?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Acknowledgement: Photo from <a title=\"Photographer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gotjenna\/\">Got Jenna<\/a>, CreativeCommons<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does having the a worried mum or fretful dad in the room with you make a lumbar puncture less likely to succeed? It&#8217;s an interesting question, and one that has been posed following an evening on call in Yorkshire. What&#8217;s the opinions of folk out there &#8211; and any evidence that you can quote to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2009\/04\/04\/q-parental-presence-and-lumbar-punctures\/\">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":[81,247,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diagnostics","category-lp","category-therapy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}