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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain 2005 5(2):67-69; doi:10.1093/bjaceaccp/mki019
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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain | Volume 5 Number 2 2005 © The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia [2005]. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org

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27. Regarding post-dural puncture headache (PDPH):
(a) True; (b) False; (c) False; (d) False; (e) False
(a) The incidence of PDPH is less when 29G needles are used, but there is a higher incidence of technical failure with these needles. (b) Ninety per cent of headaches occur within 72 hr of the procedure, and is rare between 5–14 days. (c) There is no evidence of benefit from the use of Sumatriptan in the treatment of PDPH. (d) Epidural blood patches have been used successfully to treat PDPH >1 yr after onset of symptoms. (e) Large retrospective studies have shown that subsequent epidural analgesia was successful in >96% patients who had had a previous epidural blood patch.
28. Transient neurological symptoms:
(a) False; (b) True; (c) False; (d) False; (e) True
(a) Bupivacaine is rarely associated with TNS, whereas lidocaine has an incidence of 3–25%. (b) Patients placed in the lithotomy . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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