This case report reviews anesthetic management and medical considerations for a pregnant patient with a history of pseudotumor cerebri (PTC). The 24-year-old woman, gravida 2, paragravida 0, spontaneous abortion 1, was in active labor at an estimated 38 weeks' gestation and had been given a diagnosis of PTC 4 years earlier. This patient first experienced global headaches and blurred vision at a...

After antibiotic prophylaxis with metronidazole and levofloxacin, a transrectal sextant biopsy was performed under the guide of transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS) for a 75-year-old suspicious patient with prostate adenocarcinoma. Although antibiotics were also given after this procedure, the patient still developed fever, anxious, agrypnia and headache. Blood cultures remained negative. Lumbar ...

BACKGROUND Post-dural puncture headache (PDPH) is a relatively common complication of lumbar punctures for spinal anesthesia or neurologic diagnosis. For many years, a high number of drugs has been evaluated to treat PDPH, yet there is a minority to prevent this complication. The lateral decubitus position instead of sitting position during lumbar puncture has become an interesting approach bec...

abstract background this study aimed to compare sedative and analgesic effects of oral midazolam and ketamine on bone marrow aspiration (bma) and lumbar puncture (lp). material and methods this study was a randomized clinical trial and was performed in amirkola hospital in north of iran, babol during 2011 and 2012 .the study population consisted of 40 patients who underwent the first time of di...

Background: Post-dural puncture headache (PDPH) is a well-known iatrogenic complication of lumbar puncture. The main modifiable risk factors PDPH appear to be needle size and design, which have been extensively modified in an effort lower the incidence PDPH. Currently, there no consensus on ideal tip for Therefore, we conducted this narrative review literature provide more definite answer regar...