Epidural blood patch in post-dural puncture headache in parturients: A case series
Vol. 9 No. 3 (2020), Case Report
Vol. 9 No. 3 (2020)

Epidural blood patch in post-dural puncture headache in parturients: A case series

Case Report
Published 2020-09-30
Babu Raja Shrestha
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0147-7524
Shyam Krishna Maharjan
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal
Ujma Shrestha
Lecturer, Department of Anesthesiology, Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal
Sushila Lama Moktan
Lecturer, Department of Anesthesiology, Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Keywords

Blood patch; Epidural; Headache; Obstetric; Post-dural puncture.

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Shrestha, B. R., Maharjan, S. K., Shrestha, U., & Moktan, S. L. (2020). Epidural blood patch in post-dural puncture headache in parturients: A case series. Journal of Kathmandu Medical College, 9(3), 169–172. Retrieved from https://jkmc.com.np/ojs3/index.php/journal/article/view/1047
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Abstract

This is a case series of six obstetric patients who had post-dural puncture headache, resistant to conservative treatment. The onset of post-dural headache in our series on average was on the 34th hour of the procedure.

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