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- J L Westbrook, F Donald, and L E Carrie.
- Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford.
- Anaesthesia. 1992 Nov 1;47(11):990-2.
AbstractWe have conducted a prospective study into the ease of use and incidence of postdural puncture headache with the 'Portex' combined spinal/epidural set. The pack contains a 16-gauge Tuohy needle of standard 8 cm shaft length with a matching 26-gauge pencil point spinal needle. The study included 150 consecutive combined spinal/epidural anaesthetics for lower segment Caesarean section. Eighty-eight percent of the cases fulfilled the criteria as technically perfect, i.e. cerebrospinal fluid obtained at the first attempt after identifying the epidural space. There were two cases of significant postdural puncture headache requiring blood patch due to puncture by the 26-gauge spinal needle giving an incidence of 1.3%. This compares favourably with previously reported rates in obstetric patients.
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