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Case Reports
. 1994 Oct;73(4):545-7.
doi: 10.1093/bja/73.4.545.

Meningitis after combined spinal-extradural anaesthesia in obstetrics

S A Harding  1 , R E Collis, B M Morgan
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Meningitis after combined spinal-extradural anaesthesia in obstetrics

S A Harding et al. Br J Anaesth. 1994 Oct.
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Abstract

We report two cases of meningitis which developed after combined spinal-extradural procedures for obstetric analgesia. The first case was thought to be caused by aseptic or chemical meningitis and the second was a case of bacterial meningitis in a patient who also received an extradural blood patch. It is important that meningitis is considered as a differential diagnosis in patients who present with headache after spinal anaesthesia and that antibiotic therapy is selected to cover unusual organisms.

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