%0 Journal Article %T Measuring skin to subarachnoid space depth in Egyptian population: A prospective cohort study %A Ahmed Mohamed Farid %A Hani Ibrahim Taman %A Waleed Mohamed Abdelghaffar %J Archive of "Anesthesia, Essays and Researches". %D 2016 %R 10.4103/0259-1162.179312 %X Lumbar puncture is a difficult medical skill and is used for administering subarachnoid anesthetic medications. Estimation of skin to subarachnoid space depth (SSD) helps to reduce post spinal anesthetic complications %K Intrathecal %K lumbar puncture %K predictive formulae %K subarachnoid space depth %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5062226/