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Table 1 Characteristics of women presenting UDP (N = 97)

From: Complications of unintentional dural puncture during labour epidural analgesia: a 10-year retrospective observational study

 

Average (SD)

N (%)

Anthropometric characteristics

 Age (years)

30.7 (5.4)

 

 BMI (kg/m2)

27 (3)

 

Obstetric characteristics

 Parity

  

  Primiparous woman

 

70 (72.2)

  Multiparous woman

 

27 (27.8)

  Childbirth delivery

  

  Vaginal delivery

 

69 (71.1)

   Assisted vaginal delivery

 

13 (13.4)

   Caesarean section

 

15 (15.5)

Anaesthesia characteristics

 Technique

  

  Epidural analgesia

 

89 (92)

  Combined technique

 

8 (8)

  Assessment prior to the procedure

 

93 (95.8)

 Post UDP strategy

  

  Nonexecution of analgesia

 

8 (8.2)

  Repositioning of the epidural catheter

 

47 (48.5)

  Subarachnoid analgesia

 

26 (26.8)

  Unknown UDP

 

16 (16.5)