Lumbar puncture (LP) is a technique often used for diagnostic purposes and less frequently for therapeutic ends. The main complications of the procedure are post-lumbar puncture headache (PPH) and transient nerve root irritation. Other less prevalent complications include cranial neuropathy, infections, brain herniation, vasovagal syncope, cardiac arrest, haemorrhage, and cerebral venous thromb...

background: accidental dural puncture during epidural blockade is a rare complication. since postdural puncture headache (pdph) is the most frequent complication, a wisely management method will also reduce the incidence of pdph. methods: five patients who had inadvertent dural puncture during the epidural procedure before hip or knee arthroplasty were included in this study. after dural punctu...

OBJECTIVE The study was planned to investigate the possible effects of peroperative prone and supine positions on postspinal headache incidence. METHODS This prospective study was completed at Demet Hospital, Ankara, Turkey between January-July 2003. Two groups of patients were studied, Group 1 comprised randomly selected male American Society of Anesthesiology Classification grade 1 (ASA 1)...

Isolated abducens nerve palsy following lumbar puncture is a very rare condition. In this case we discussed the probable causes of abducens nerve palsy and review the mechanism of action in anatomical relevant literature. A 53-year old hypertensive female patient with a saccular aneursym on the left middle cerebral artery (MCA) bifurcation underwent emergency operation. Before the operation lum...

BACKGROUND Post dural puncture headache can be a debilitating complication of subarachnoid anaesthesia for a new mother. Successful management of post dural puncture headache requires adherence to clear policies and protocols with close follow up of patients by an experienced obstetric anaesthetist. OBJECTIVES To examine the cumulative incidence and severity of post dural puncture headache in...

although there have been various studies on the agents reducing pain in infants, but inadequate researches are available in which the effect of low dose of fentanyl in pain reducing in infants has been investigated. to find out the low dose effect of fentanyl on the pain reducing resulted from lumbar puncture in infants. this randomized double blind clinical trial was done on the 82 infants in ...

Aims: Spinal anaesthesia is a standard anesthetic technique in obstetrics, as it provides good analgesia and muscle relaxation. But every procedure comes with certain side effects complications. Lumbar puncture for subarachnoid block done by either median or paramedian approach. Besides postoperative headache, other like nausea, vomiting have been reported the period. Hereby we conducted study ...

Spinal anaesthesia is associated with certain complications such as severe hypotension, post-spinal headache, meningitis, audiovisual disturbances and some time transient or permanent neurological damage. Now-a-days spinal anaesthesia is in demand again due to cost effectiveness, rapidity and predictability of effects and decreased rate of complications. A case of a young woman who received spi...