• Anesthesia and analgesia · Feb 1990

    Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial

    Effects of oral caffeine on postdural puncture headache. A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

    • W R Camann, R S Murray, P S Mushlin, and D H Lambert.
    • Department of Anesthesia, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
    • Anesth. Analg. 1990 Feb 1; 70 (2): 181-4.

    AbstractForty postpartum patients with postdural puncture headache (PDPH) were randomly assigned to receive oral caffeine (300 mg) or a placebo. Intensity of headache, quantitated using a visual analogue pain scale (VAS), was assessed immediately before drug administration and 4 and 24 h later. Relief of PDPH measured as delta VAS (initial VAS - VAS at 4 h) was significantly better in the caffeine than in the placebo group (P = 0.014). Six patients (30%) whose PDPH was relieved by caffeine at 4 h had recurrence of symptoms the following day. Our study demonstrates that caffeine administered orally provides relief, albeit if sometimes transient, from PDPH with minimal side effects.

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