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MAY 24, 2018

Case Report: Unintended Dural Puncture After Epidural Steroid Injection for Labor Analgesia

Merrick Miles, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Division of Anesthesiology Critical Care
Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tenn.
Kimberley Nichols, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Introduction

Many factors have been hypothesized that might put a patient at risk for dural puncture, such as a large needle gauge and patient position during placement. However, a