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October 2022; 12 (5) Research Article

Discordance Between Perceptions and Experience of Lumbar Puncture

A Prospective Study

Yoshie Umemura, Baber Khan, Benjamin J. Weill, Justin J. Buthorn, Anna Skakodub, Andrew J. Ridder, Kathryn S. Nevel, Yilun Sun, Adrienne Boire
First published July 20, 2022, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/CPJ.0000000000200061
Yoshie Umemura
Departments of Neurology (YU, BK, AJR, YS), and Radiation Oncology and Biostatistics (YS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (BJW, JJB, AS, KSN), Brain Tumor Center and Department of Neurology (AB), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
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Baber Khan
Departments of Neurology (YU, BK, AJR, YS), and Radiation Oncology and Biostatistics (YS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (BJW, JJB, AS, KSN), Brain Tumor Center and Department of Neurology (AB), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
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Benjamin J. Weill
Departments of Neurology (YU, BK, AJR, YS), and Radiation Oncology and Biostatistics (YS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (BJW, JJB, AS, KSN), Brain Tumor Center and Department of Neurology (AB), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
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Justin J. Buthorn
Departments of Neurology (YU, BK, AJR, YS), and Radiation Oncology and Biostatistics (YS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (BJW, JJB, AS, KSN), Brain Tumor Center and Department of Neurology (AB), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
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Anna Skakodub
Departments of Neurology (YU, BK, AJR, YS), and Radiation Oncology and Biostatistics (YS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (BJW, JJB, AS, KSN), Brain Tumor Center and Department of Neurology (AB), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
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Andrew J. Ridder
Departments of Neurology (YU, BK, AJR, YS), and Radiation Oncology and Biostatistics (YS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (BJW, JJB, AS, KSN), Brain Tumor Center and Department of Neurology (AB), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
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Kathryn S. Nevel
Departments of Neurology (YU, BK, AJR, YS), and Radiation Oncology and Biostatistics (YS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (BJW, JJB, AS, KSN), Brain Tumor Center and Department of Neurology (AB), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
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Yilun Sun
Departments of Neurology (YU, BK, AJR, YS), and Radiation Oncology and Biostatistics (YS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (BJW, JJB, AS, KSN), Brain Tumor Center and Department of Neurology (AB), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
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Adrienne Boire
Departments of Neurology (YU, BK, AJR, YS), and Radiation Oncology and Biostatistics (YS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (BJW, JJB, AS, KSN), Brain Tumor Center and Department of Neurology (AB), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
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Discordance Between Perceptions and Experience of Lumbar Puncture
A Prospective Study
Yoshie Umemura, Baber Khan, Benjamin J. Weill, Justin J. Buthorn, Anna Skakodub, Andrew J. Ridder, Kathryn S. Nevel, Yilun Sun, Adrienne Boire
Neurol Clin Pract Oct 2022, 12 (5) 344-351; DOI: 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000200061

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Background and Objectives Novel diagnostic techniques and neurologic biomarkers have greatly expanded clinical indications for CSF studies. CSF is most commonly obtained via lumbar puncture (LP). Although it is generally believed that LPs are well tolerated, there is a lack of supportive data for this claim, and patients anticipate LP to be painful. The objective of this study was to prospectively investigate discordance between patient perception and tolerability of LP.

Methods Adult patients were surveyed before and after LP regarding their perceptions and experience of LP. Physician perceptions were gathered through a web-based survey. Relative risk and Spearman correlation were used to assess the relationship between responses. Paired binomial and paired ordinal responses were compared by McNemar and paired Wilcoxon rank-sum tests.

Results A total of 178 patients completed the surveys. About half of the patients (58%) reported anxiety pre-LP, at median 3.0 of 10. Physicians overpredicted patients' pre-LP anxiety (median score 5.0, p < 0.001). Experienced pain was significantly less than predicted pain (median scores 0 and 3.0, respectively, p < 0.001). Patients who predicted pain were more likely to report pain from LP (relative risk [RR] 1.3). Predicting pain was also correlated with anxiety before LP (p < 0.001).

Discussion LP was generally well tolerated. The majority of patients experienced minimal pain. Anticipation of pain was correlated with both feeling anxious and experiencing pain. The results of this study can be used to reassure patients and providers that LP is indeed not as painful as imagined, which may both reduce pre-LP anxiety and improve LP tolerability.

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  • Funding information and disclosures are provided at the end of the article. Full disclosure form information provided by the authors is available with the full text of this article at Neurology.org/cp.

  • Submitted and externally peer reviewed. The handling editor was Deputy Editor Kathryn Kvam, MD.

  • Received January 11, 2022.
  • Accepted April 26, 2022.
  • © 2022 American Academy of Neurology
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