Prophylactic epidural blood patch after unintentional dural puncture for the prevention of postdural puncture headache in parturients

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 133-136

  Agerson, Ashley N ^a   Scavone, Barbara M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKACHE; BED REST; BLOOD PATCH; CAREGIVER; CATHETERIZATION; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEADACHE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; OBSTETRIC PATIENT; OBSTETRICS; PEER REVIEW; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; POST HOC ANALYSIS; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUERPERIUM; RADICULITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SITTING; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 84862988344     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31825642c7     Document Type: Review

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