Timeliness to definitive treatment to avoid severe neurologic complications associated with spontaneous intracranial hypotension

Can J Anaesth. 2023 Nov;70(11):1854-1856. doi: 10.1007/s12630-023-02554-8. Epub 2023 Aug 18.

Authors

Patrick Hong¹, Anish Kapadia², Carolyn Lai³, William Kingston⁴, Howard Meng⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Department of Medical Imaging, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Division of Neurosurgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Division of Neurology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁵ Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada. howard.meng@mail.utoronto.ca.

PMID: 37594663
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-023-02554-8

No abstract available

Keywords: dural diverticulum; epidural blood patch; spontaneous intracranial hypotension.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Blood Patch, Epidural
Headache / etiology
Headache / therapy
Humans
Intracranial Hypotension* / complications
Intracranial Hypotension* / therapy
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Nervous System Diseases*