Anaesthesia
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Anaesthesia
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A postal survey of all maternity units in the UK was conducted to gain information regarding the management of inadvertent dural taps occurring during the sitting of epidurals for pain relief in labour. Of the units surveyed only 58.5% had a written protocol for the management of dural taps. ⋯ In 46% of the units, patients who had a dural tap were allowed to push in the second stage of labour. As prophylaxis against the development of headache, 70% of the units infused crystalloids into the epidural space, whereas only 8.6% were in favour of an early prophylactic blood patch.
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The Woolley and Roe case. 1954.
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Prototype Macintosh laryngoscopes and the 'Real McCoy'.