Pneumocephalous: Radiological Presentation of Intra-cranial Hypotension after Spinal Anaesthesia
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چکیده
Pneumocephalus is a commonly encountered entity in patients of head trauma and post-op cases neurosurgery, however it rarely observed after spinal anaesthesia.
 It presents orthostatic hypotension associated with severe headache, nausea vomiting. We report case pneumocephalus following anaesthesia administered for open hernia repair.
 The proposed mechanisms secondary to tapping are the ball-valve mechanism (1) inverted soda-bottle effect (2).
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International journal of medical and pharmaceutical case reports
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2394-109X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.9734/ijmpcr/2023/v16i3338