Severe, acute meningeal irritative reaction after epidural blood patch

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1139-1140

  Oh, Joanne ^a   Camann, William ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; CEFOTAXIME; IBUPROFEN; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CESAREAN SECTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MACROSOMIA; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MENINGITIS; OBESITY; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENINGITIS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0031754367     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199811000-00030     Document Type: Article

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