Diagnostic
- Investigate meningoencephalitis
- Investigate neurological disorders max 1:
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Guillain Barre
- Mitochondrial Disorders
- Paraneoplastic Syndromes
- Investigate subarachnoid haemorrhage 1
- Investigate disorders of intracranial pressure 1
- Administer diagnostic agents 1:
- Contrast media in myelography
Therapeutic
- Spinal anaesthesia1
- Administer therapeutic agents max 1:
- Intrathecal chemotherapy
- Intrathecal antibiotics
- Intrathecal baclofen
- Manage specific disorders max 1:
- Benign intracranial hypertension
- Acute communicating hydrocephalus
- Cryptococcal meningitis in HIV infection
- CSF leak