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What is Blood Patch?

Blood patches are performed for treatment of a persistent headache and nausea that sometimes follows a spinal puncture (tap). The procedure consists of an injection at the spinal tap site of a small quantity of the patient's own blood to patch the hole created by the spinal tap needle.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Headaches 3 1 Efficacy_major
Other 2 1 Efficacy_none
Spinal headaches 2 0
Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak 1 0

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 2
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 0

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Blood Patch

Hospitalization 2
Back pain 1
Spinal headaches 1

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Blood Patch

Always
 1 50%
Usually
 0 0%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 1 50%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Blood Patch

Very
 1 50%
Somewhat
 1 50%
A little
 0 0%
Not at all
 0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Blood Patch

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 1 100%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 0 0%

Report created on May 28, 2012.