Continuous Spinal Anesthesia

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Continuous spinal anesthesia (CSA) is one of the most useful, and reliable techniques in both obstetric and non-obstetric populations allowing dose titration of local anesthetic and decreasing the risk of high spinal blockade [5]. However CSA is still unpopular among anesthetists because the incidence of its possible complications including PDPH and neurological impairment remains controversial [6]. Many measures attempted to prevent or decrease the incidence and severity of PDPH in high risk patients including: intrathecal injection of saline [7], epidural injection or infusion of saline [8, 9, 10], continuous intrathecal analgesia [11], epidural morphine [12], prophylactic epidural blood patch [13, 14], and insertion of epidural catheter

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