{"id":192,"date":"2006-12-27T23:00:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2006-12-27T23:00:29","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T06:00:29","slug":"champagne-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/27\/champagne-tap\/","title":{"rendered":"Champagne Tap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have attempted a few lumbar punctures (AKA &quot;spinal taps&quot;) during my 6 months as a doctor, but none of them had been successful until just a few short weeks ago.&nbsp; That was when I got my first champagne tap.<br \/><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"\/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Champagne Tap: Successfully performing a lumbar puncture so that cerebrospinal fluid is obtained and is not contaminated with blood, thus having the appearance of a champagne color.&nbsp; Often reserved for a specimen that has zero red cells on microscopic exam, though sometimes used for anything less than 20 reds, so long as the gross appearance is not bloody.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So I guess mine was pseudo-champagne, since there were 3 red cells on microscopic&#8230; but just the fact that it was not grossly bloody (like the previous 3 I had tried) was entirely satisfying.<br type=\"_moz\"\/>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have attempted a few lumbar punctures (AKA &quot;spinal taps&quot;) during my 6 months as a doctor, but none of them had been successful until just a few short weeks ago.&nbsp; That was when I got my first champagne tap.(Champagne &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/27\/champagne-tap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-residency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}