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[MedlinePlus](https://medlineplus.gov/lab-tests/cerebrospinal-fluid-csf-analysis/)" }, { "name": "Paired blood specimen", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked serum or plasma specimen, collection time and matched analytes", "why_it_matters": "Supports analyses that require comparison with systemic concentrations." }, { "name": "Targeted analytical result", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named target, method, quantitative or qualitative result, detection limits and laboratory interpretation", "why_it_matters": "Keeps each microbiological, immune or molecular result tied to what was actually tested." }, { "name": "Assay-specific specimen fitness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Acceptable, conditionally acceptable, rejected, unassessed; assay and reason", "why_it_matters": "Makes usability depend on the requested analysis and actual handling history." } ], "affordances": [ "Associate a CSF observation or specimen with its organism, anatomical compartment and collection event.", "Compare serial CSF measurements after checking site, method, handling and reference-context compatibility.", "Track tubes, aliquots, remaining volume and assay-specific preservation requirements.", "Assemble evidence for CSF identity or suspected leakage and identify unresolved confounders.", "Flag results that meet a laboratory's documented escalation criteria for clinician review.", "Record clinician-authorized sampling, drainage or intrathecal exposure and link subsequent CSF observations to that event." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "statpearls-csf", "title": "Physiology, Cerebral Spinal Fluid", "url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519007/", "what_it_supports": "Production by choroid plexus, circulation through ventricles and subarachnoid space, volume and daily turnover, composition versus plasma, and clinical roles of CSF analysis.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "csf-identity-and-compartments", "name": "CSF identity and compartments", "description": "Establish what fluid is represented, where it originated and how confidently it is identified.", "rationale": "CSF in a physiological space, an escaped collection and a laboratory tube require different identity evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "anatomical-provenance", "name": "Anatomical provenance", "description": "Connect the fluid to its organism and source compartment.", "findings": [ { "id": "origin-and-representation", "name": "Origin and representation", "description": "Record whether the subject is an in-body fluid compartment, escaped fluid or a collected specimen.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organism and anatomical CSF space does this record represent?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "origin-and-representation-q01" }, { "text": "Is its present location also its origin, or was it collected, diverted or leaked elsewhere?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "origin-and-representation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fluid-identification", "name": "Fluid 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"layers": [ { "id": "pressure-and-amount", "name": "Pressure and amount", "description": "Keep pressure measurements and fluid quantities attached to their acquisition conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditioned-mechanical-measurements", "name": "Conditioned mechanical measurements", "description": "Distinguish directly measured pressure and collected quantities from estimated physiological quantities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where, when, in what posture and by which method was pressure measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "conditioned-mechanical-measurements-q01" }, { "text": "Does a reported volume describe a compartment estimate, specimen, aliquot or drainage interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "conditioned-mechanical-measurements-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "circulation-and-escape", "name": "Circulation and escape", "description": "Attach flow and leakage assessments to a specific anatomical route.", "findings": [ { "id": "flow-and-containment-evidence", "name": "Flow 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leakage, and at what time?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sampling-effects-q01" }, { "text": "What tube sequence, procedural observations or recent flushing support possible blood contamination or dilution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sampling-effects-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence remains necessary to distinguish collection-related blood from blood already present in CSF?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "sampling-effects-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "preservation-and-aliquots", "name": "Preservation and aliquots", "description": "Connect specimen transformations and available volume to assay requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "assay-specific-usability", "name": "Assay-specific usability", "description": "Assess each intended analysis against documented transport, storage and processing conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What elapsed times, temperatures, containers, processing steps and freeze-thaw events apply to this aliquot?", "kind": "provenance", "id": 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