Needle gauge and tip designs for preventing post-dural puncture headache (PDPH).

CONCLUSIONS: There is moderate-quality evidence that atraumatic needles reduce the risk of post-dural puncture headache (PDPH) without increasing adverse events such as paraesthesia or backache. The studies did not report very clearly on aspects related to randomization, such as random sequence generation and allocation concealment, making it difficult to interpret the risk of bias in the included studies. The moderate quality of the evidence for traumatic versus atraumatic needles suggests that further research is likely to have an important impact on our confidence in the estimate of effect.
PMID: 28388808 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - April 7, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Arevalo-Rodriguez I, Muñoz L, Godoy-Casasbuenas N, Ciapponi A, Arevalo JJ, Boogaard S, Roqué I Figuls M Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research