The home page is where it all starts.  Click on procedure details to learn everything you need to know.  Watch the video to see the procedure live.

The Procedure Details screen includes access to all of the content you see listed here: indications, contraindications, complications, equipment, step-by-step technique, what studies to order, is a head CT needed before the spinal tap, and coding details.
 

This is an example of one of the pages detailing the indications for diagnostic and therapeutic lumbar puncture.  All the information you need right in the palm of your hand when you need it.

 

You would hold you iPhone horizontally to watch the video (for this image, cock your head to the left).  The high-resolution color video of the lumbar puncture procedure explains each step and shows how its done.  It's like having an expert in your pocket!

Joseph Esherick, M.D. is the expert clinician and educator who created the content for this App.  He is the director of the medical intensive care unit at Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura, California and teaches Hospitalist Procedures courses for the National Procedures Institute.