• Anisa Bhettay and Roxanne Burger.
• Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Division of Paediatric Anaesthesia, Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Paediatr Anaesth. 2024 Feb 1; 34 (2): 182184182-184.

AbstractPost-dural puncture headache is a distressing complication that may occur after lumbar puncture or unintentional dural puncture. Risk factors in the pediatric population have not been well elicited, and the true incidence is unknown. Conservative management includes conservative physical measures and medical therapies. Epidural blood patch remains the gold standard for managing severe refractory headache, but greater occipital nerve blocks and sphenopalatine ganglion blocks have been used with success. Sphenopalatine ganglion blocks are easy to perform, minimally invasive and, in the postoperative setting where epidural analgesia is utilized, provide an alternative that should be considered.© 2023 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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