Y. Kalyan Chakravarty 1 , S. Ch. S Ramkrishna 2 , A. S. K. Rao 3 , Anand Acharya
BACKGROUND Spinal anaesthesia for surgical procedure was started in late nineteenth century and so the post dural puncture headache. In those days incidence use to be very high but with the fine gauge needle and better technique the incidence has largely reduced. But it is still an important cause of headache in post-operative period and depends upon not only the size type of needle but also various other factor like experience of person performing, age, sex and technique used. MATERIALS AND METHODS Present study has been conducted in the department of anaesthesia Konaseema institute of medical science. It is a prospective randomized observational study conducted during May 2015 to June 2017. The study is approved by institutional ethical committee. Patient selected for this study were divided into two groups. First group belongs to spinal flexion group (Gs) having 30 patients and second group having HIP flexion group (GH) having 30 patients. Various date like Age, body weight, BMI, type of surgery, duration of surgery, number of skin puncture, number of needle passage., experience of anaesthesiologist (years), Duration of anaesthesia, Episodes of PDPH were noted. RESULTS Out of 60 patients enrolled under study group 10 developed PDPH. Four patients were in spine flexion group and 6 were in hip flexion group. In spine flexion group 1st day one patient developed PDPH, on 2nd day two patients developed PDPH and one patient on third day. In hip flexion group one on first day, four on second day and one on third day but both are not statistically significant. CONCLUSION We have found that incidence of PDPH was more in hip flexion than in spinal flexion but it was not statistically significant. We have found that the PDPH was more in younger age group than older people, but not significant statistically. In our study we have found that lower BMI is associated with higher PDPH which is not statistically significant.
