Effect of Supine versus Sitting Position on Post-Dural Puncture Headache among Patients Receiving Spinal Anesthesia

One of the most commonly reported complications associated with spinal anesthesia is post-dural puncture headache, even while, precise mechanisms causing headache are still not well known, which if left untreated, can lead to severe such as subdural hematoma and convulsions. The aim current study was evaluate effect supine versus sitting position on among patients receiving anesthesia. Design: A quasi-experimental research design Sitting: present carried out at Menoufia University Hospital's urology orthopedic surgery departments, Governorate, Egypt. Subjects: purposive sample 100 adult who volunteered participate in met inclusion criteria were randomly divided evenly into two groups. Tools: For data gathering, three instruments utilized this are: 1.Patients' characteristics questionnaire used analyze their sociodemographic features, past, present, family medical history 2. Visual Numerical Analogue Scale (VAS) adopted for Severity evaluation 3.Headache Impact Index had been grade severity headache's complications. Results: There a statistically significant decrease incidence, group (study I) subjects than II) differences existed between studied Conclusion: Maintaining first 72 hours post management technique significantly improved Recommendations: Designing plan care post-spinal should include positioning simple that could preferable effects regarding Replication larger size longer follow-up period allow results' generalization