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Maintaining a Prone Position After Use of an Epidural Blood Patch for the Treatment of Post-dural Puncture Headache

NCT02427009 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3

Last updated 2017-02-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The main objective of this study is to assess the rate of recurrence of headache following a first blood patch where patients will be positioned in the prone position for an hour after each blood patch needed during this study.

Conditions

  • Post-Dural Puncture Headache

Interventions

OTHER

Prone position for 1 hour after blood patch

After performing a blood patch, the patient will be placed in a prone position for 1 hour. This applies to all blood patches required during her hospitalization.

PROCEDURE

Blood patch

And indicated in inclusion criteria, patients in this protocol will have at least 1 blood patch. The amount of blood to be injected into the peridural space is fixed at 20 ml, but can be less in case of pain.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Guy Aya, MD · Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-12-31
Primary Completion
2016-04-21
Completion
2016-04-23

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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