Unexplained fitting in patients with post-dural puncture headache. Risk of iatrogenic pneumocephalus with air rationalizes use of loss of resistance to saline (multiple letters) [4]

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 810-812

  van den Berg, A A ^a   Nguyen, L ^a   von Maszewski, M ^a   Hoefer, H ^a   Oliver, C D ^a   White, S A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CAFFEINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AIR; BED REST; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DURA MATER; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LABOR; LETTER; LIQUORRHEA; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038201842     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aeg571     Document Type: Letter

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