A 5-year audit of accidental dural punctures, postdural puncture headaches, and failed regional anesthetics at a tertiary-care medical center

TheScientificWorldJournal

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 715-722

  Singh, Sukhdip ^a   Chaudry, Shagufta Y ^a   Phelps, Amy L ^b   Vallejo, Manuel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidental dural puncture; Failed regional; Maternal outcome; Postdural puncture headache

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANESTHETIC AGENT; LIDOCAINE;

ACCIDENTAL DURAL PUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BODY MASS; BRAIN DAMAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DURA MATER; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PARESTHESIA; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VAGINAL DELIVERY; WEIGHT; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; INJURY; PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; PREGNANCY;

EID: 70350746444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2009.94     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Baraz, R. and Collis, R.E. (2005) The management of accidental dural puncture during labour epidural analgesia: a survey of UK practice. Anesthesia 60, 673-679. (Pubitemid 40908993)
2. Berger, C.W., Crosby, E.T., and Grodecki, W. (1998) North American survey of the management of dural puncture occurring during labour epidural analgesia. Can. J. Anaesth. 45, 110-114.
3. Bucklin, B.A., Tinker, J.H., and Smith, C.V. (1999) Clinical dilemma: a patient with postdural puncture headache and acute leukemia. Anesth. Analg. 88, 166-167.
4. Choi, P.T., Galinski, S.E., Takeuchi, L., Lucas, S., Tamayo, C., and Jadad, A.R. (2003) PDPH is a common complication of neuraxial blockade in parturients: a meta-analysis of obstetrical studies. Can. J. Anaesth. 50, 460-469. (Pubitemid 36833602)
5. Gaiser, R. (2006) Postdural puncture headache. Curr. Opin. Anaesthesiol. 19, 249-253.
6. Pan, P.H., Bogard, T.D., and Owen, M.D. (2004) Incidence and characteristics of failure in obstetrics neuraxial analgesia and anesthesia: a retrospective analysis of 19,259 deliveries. Int. J. Obstet. Anesth. 13, 227-233.
7. Scavone, B.M., Wong, C.A., Sullivan, J.T., Yaghmour, E., Sherwani, S.S., and McCarthy, R.J. (2004) Efficacy of a prophylactic epidural blood patch in preventing post dural puncture headache in parturients after inadvertent dural puncture. Anesthesiology 101, 1422-1427. (Pubitemid 39565000)
8. Vallejo, M.C., Mandell, G.L., Sabo, D.P., and Ramanathan, S. (2000) Postdural puncture headache: a randomized comparison of five spinal needles in obstetric patients. Anesth. Analg. 91, 916-920.
9. Glanz, S.A. (1977) Primer of Biostatistics. 4th ed. McGraw-Hill, New York.
10. Vallejo, M.C. (2007) Anesthetic management of the morbidly obese parturient. Curr. Opin. Anaesthesiol. 20, 175-180. (Pubitemid 46701327)