MS-1728

MS-1728

Olivia is a 19-year-old female who has recently started college. She attends a party and has many alcoholic drinks and wakes the next morning with a severe headache. She puts this down to being hungover, however, by the next day the headache is worse and she has a widespread non-blanching purpuric rash. She attends the emergency department who suspect meningitis and would like to perform a lumbar puncture to obtain a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sample. The doctor would like to take the sample from the cauda equina to avoid spinal cord injury, at which level does the spinal cord terminate?