Originally published in our sister publication, Pain Medicine News.
A retrospective chart review of 549 spinal cord stimulation (SCS) and 503 intrathecal pump (ITP) patients found that 2.2% of SCS patients had accidental dural puncture, 75% of whom developed postdural puncture headache (PDPH).
In contrast, ITP patients, in whom intrathecal puncture is an expected part of the procedure, developed PDPH only 3.8% of the time. This is comparable to existing literature on lumbar punctures for spinal