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Subdural Hematoma as a Consequence of Epidural Anesthesia.
Case Rep Emerg Med
  • Tracy M Bishop, DO, Lehigh Valley Health Network
  • Kareem S Elsayed, MS, USF MCOM- LVHN Campus
  • Kathleen E Kane, MD, Lehigh Valley Health Network
Publication/Presentation Date
1-1-2015
Abstract

Regional spinal and epidural anesthesia are used commonly in operative procedures. While the most frequent complication, postdural puncture headache (PDPH), is a clinically diagnosed positional headache that is usually self-limited, subdural hemorrhage (SDH) is a potentially fatal complication that cannot be missed. We report a case of an otherwise healthy female who presented with persistent positional headache and was ultimately found to have a large subdural hematoma with midline shift requiring surgical evacuation.

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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4677186/

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26697237
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Bishop, T. M., Elsayed, K. S., & Kane, K. E. (2015). Subdural Hematoma as a Consequence of Epidural Anesthesia.Case Reports In Emergency Medicine, 2015597942. doi:10.1155/2015/597942