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I've just started working in child/adolescent psychiatry inpt again. We don't have a pediatric unit at my hospital/not affiliated with a university, so I don't know how much enthusiasm I can whip up for a fishing expedition. The last spinal tap I did (though: champagne tap, and on a 6 week old, b*tches!) was cough cough several years ago. Just wondering if any units are doing this now as part of new onset psychosis w/u. I have a pt who (in an ideal world) I'd like to get this done on, if only because it's pretty sudden onset, no real fam hx of psychosis, and a remote hx of sz x1 (3 yrs ago). No real focal neurologic sx currently, except severe psychosis. She's 16