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Prolonged impairment in activities of daily living due to postdural puncture headache after diagnostic lumbar puncture
Author(s) -
Tohmo H.,
Vuorinen E.,
Muuronen A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1998.00326.x
Subject(s) - medicine , lumbar puncture , incidence (geometry) , activities of daily living , lumbar , surgery , anesthesia , physical therapy , cerebrospinal fluid , physics , optics
To assess the incidence of postdural puncture headache and its effects on patients' activities of daily living, we interviewed 325 adult patients subjected to a diagnostic lumbar puncture during a 1‐year period. Two hundred and eighteen (67%) of the subjects replied to the questionnaire; 41 (19%) of these were diagnosed as having suffered a postdural puncture headache. Impairment of the activities of daily living persisting for 1 week or more was experienced by 16 (7%) of the subjects.