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Case Report: Pneumocephalus after labor epidural anesthesia

2014-07-22

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Lumbar epidural anesthesia is commonly used for labor analgesia. The 'loss-of- resistance' to air technique (LORA) is generally employed for recognition of the epidural space. One of the rare complications of this technique is pneumocephalus (PC). Here we describe the case of a parturient who developed a frontal headache when locating the epidural space using LORA. On the second day after epidural injection, the p...

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10.12688/f1000research.4693.1
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