The 18G catheter was removed and replaced at the same location with no CSF reported. A non-styletted catheter was then placed and threaded to 21 cm at the skin. No CSF or blood was aspirated via either catheter. Test dose was negative and the patient was loaded with 5 cc of 0.25% bupivacaine. The patient remained hemodynamically stable with surgical manipulation. Epidural infusion consisted of ...

BACKGROUND/AIM Postdural puncture backache (PDPB) is the most frequent complaint after spinal anesthesia. In the literature its importance is generally overshadowed by postdural puncture headache. We studied two different kinds of spinal anesthesia needles to compare their technical handling capacities and incidences of PDPB. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data of 256 pregnant female patients undergoi...

BACKGROUND Postdural puncture headache (PDPH) occurs in up to 80% of parturients who experience inadvertent dural puncture during epidural catheter placement. The authors performed a randomized double blind study to assess the effect of prophylactic epidural blood patch on the incidence of PDPH and the need for therapeutic epidural blood patch. METHODS Sixty-four parturients who incurred inad...

abstract background: the most common complication of lumbar puncture (lp) occurring in over thirty percent of patients is headache. the position after lumbar puncture, needle type and size, and volume of the extracted cerebrospinal fluid (csf) have been evaluated as contributory factors in occurrence of post lumbar puncture headache (plph), but the position before lumbar puncture has not been e...