Anesthesia & Clinical Research
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Deparment of Anaesthesiology, Maharashtra Postgraduate Institute of Health Sciences, Nashik, Maharashtra, India

Publications

• Mini Review   
  Beware while Treating Post-Spinal Headache!
  Author(s): Sadhana Sudhir Kulkarni* and Savani Sameer Futane
  
  Central Neural Block (CNB) is administered frequently for caesarean section. Post-spinal Headache (PSH) is the most frequent and discomforting late complication of spinal anesthesia. PSH is an important cause of iatrogenic maternal co-morbidity and maternal dissatisfaction. Expedited discharge of the mother or delayed onset of PSH in some women may not capture all the mothers developing PSH after hospital discharge. The mother having PSH might first report to the obstetrician. A pilot study in our institute, regarding knowledge and practice of treatment of PSH amongst obstetricians demonstrated limited knowledge of PSH. Even though PSH is a self-limiting condition, a subset of patients will suffer from potentially life-threatening neurological consequences. Such a patient needs urgent referral to an anesthesiologist, neurologist and special radiological investigations for definitive d.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2155-9570.24.15.1130

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