Diagnostic
- Investigate meningoencephalitis
- Investigate neurological disorders:
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Guillain Barre
- Mitochondrial Disorders
- Paraneoplastic Syndromes
- Investigate subarachnoid haemorrhage
- Investigate disorders of intracranial pressure
- Administer diagnostic agents:
- Contrast media in myelography
Therapeutic
- Spinal anaesthesia
- Administer therapeutic agents:
- Intrathecal chemotherapy
- Intrathecal antibiotics
- Intrathecal baclofen
- Manage specific disorders:
- Benign intracranial hypertension
- Acute communicating hydrocephalus
- Cryptococcal meningitis in HIV infection
- CSF leak