| Title: | Prolonged impairment in activities of daily living due to postdural puncture headache after diagnostic lumbar puncture |
| Author(s): | Tohmo, H. Vuorinen, E. Muuronen, A. |
| Address: | Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Kymenlaakso Central Hospital, Kotka, Finland. |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0003-2409 (Print). 0003-2409 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | To assess the incidence of postdural puncture headache and its effects on patients' activities of daily living, we interviewed 325 adult patients subjected to a diagnostic lumbar puncture during a 1-year period. Two hundred and eighteen (67%) of the subjects replied to the questionnaire; 41 (19%) of these were diagnosed as having suffered a postdural puncture headache. Impairment of the activities of daily living persisting for 1 week or more was experienced by 16 (7%) of the subjects. |
