Online ISSN: 2515-8260

A PROSPECTIVE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF BODY MASS INDEX ON THE INCIDENCE OF POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE IN PARTURIENTS UNDERGOING ELECTIVE CESAREAN SECTION UNDER SPINAL ANESTHESIA: KAKATIYA MEDICAL COLLEGE, WARANGAL

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M. Priya Darshini1 , MadhaviLatha pinnelli2 , GullapalliHanumantha Rao3 , Kiran Madhala4*

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The relationship between Post-Dural puncture headache (PDPH) and body mass index (BMI) in individuals who have just given birth has been the subject of contentious studies in the past. As a result, we decided to survey this complication in a group of patients who had cesarean sections performed under spinal anesthesia. It was predicted that people with greater BMIs would experience PDPH less frequently.The demographic data was retrieved and documented after looking over the patient files and phoning the patients. Additionally, a headache score based on a 0–10 verbal numeric rating scale (NRS) and the development of PDPH up to three days after a cesarean section in the present delivery were documented.At the Kakatiya Medical College in Warangal, 76 women who had undergone spinal anesthesia for a cesarean section participated in this study (March 2021 to February 2022). The subjects ranged in age from 20 to 40 years old (28.24 ± 3.27). The average BMI (kg/m2) before a cesarean section was 30.21 ± 2.82. 38 (50%) of the 76 parturient patients were not obese, and the remaining (50%) were (BMI > 30 kg/m2); 97.90% were non-smokers, and 92 percent had no prior history of PDPH during the previous neuro-axial anesthesia/analgesia

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