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Permanent hearing loss and tinnitus following epidural analgesia complicated by accidental dural puncture

S M O'Shaughnessy1, C W R Fitzgerald2, R Katiri2

  • 1Department of Anaesthesiology, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia
|May 22, 2020
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We report a case of permanent high-frequency hearing loss and tinnitus in a 38-year-old woman following an unrecognised dural puncture during epidural placement. The patient reported subjective unilateral hearing loss and tinnitus, along with a post-dural puncture headache, four hours post-delivery. The patient's headache resolved following two epidural blood patches, however, hearing loss and tinnitus persisted longer than two years. Long-term auditory symptoms following epidural analgesia in labour are very unusual findings.

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