Dry tap and spinal anesthesia

Deformed spinal needle causing PDPH and dry tap due to blood clot

Postdural puncture headache (PDPH) is a significant complication of spinal anesthesia. There is considerable variability in the incidence of PDPH, which is affected by a number of factors including age, gender, pregnancy, and needle type and size. We present a case where a patient had PDPH after a spinal block with a deformed spinal needle due to calcified interspinous ligaments. We suggest, in...

[YouTube as an information source of spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia and combined spinal and epidural anesthesia].

INTRODUCTION Social media as YouTube have become a part of daily life and many studies evaluated health-related YouTube videos. Our aim was to evaluate videos available on YouTube for the conformity to textbook information and their sufficiency as a source for patient information. MATERIAL AND METHOD A search of the YouTube website was performed using the keywords "spinal anesthesia, epidural...

[Spinal anesthesia].

Comparison of neonatal and maternal outcomes after cesarean delivery with general anesthesia and spinal anesthesia

 Aims and background: The choice of anesthesia for cesarean section depends on factors such as the cause of the operation, the degree of urgency of the operation and the patient’s desire. Following the choice of any of the methods either general anesthesia or spinal anesthesia for mother and baby will have consequences. The aim of this study was to compare maternal and neonatal outcomes afte...

“Dry tap” of Bone Marrow and its Clinical Importance

Objective: Dry tap is usually defined as a “failure to obtain bone marrow on attempted marrow aspiration”. The diagnosis and management of many haematological diseases depends on examination of the bone marrow, which involves two separate specimens i.e. a cytologic and a histologic preparation. The purpose of this study was to document the causes of dry tap and importance of bone marrow biopsy....