ANALYSIS OF CORRELATION BETWEEN POST-SPINAL ANESTHESIA HEADACHE AND POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION: A LITERATURE REVIEW

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1593582310084

• Palavras-chave: post-spinal anesthesia, post-spinal headache, postpartum depression.

• Keywords: post-spinal anesthesia, post-spinal headache, postpartum depression.

• Abstract:

  This study presents a systematic review of literature published in Portuguese regarding the correlation between the development of post-dural puncture headache and the incidence of postpartum depression, including a critical assessment of the methodological quality of the studies. It is presented from articles published between 2005 and 2022, using the following descriptors: post-spinal anesthesia, post-spinal anesthesia headache, postpartum depression. Searches were carried out in the databases of Academic Google, Science Direct and the Virtual Health Library, in addition to anesthesiology books published between 2014 and 2017. An introduction was described and discussed on the use of spinal anesthesia, the appearance of headache after dural puncture, the clinical manifestations and the association of postpartum depression in patients who required spinal anesthesia. It was evidenced that there are many studies on the proposed topic, but there was no direct relationship between postpartum depression and post-spinal anesthesia headache. Therefore, it is concluded that further studies are needed to elucidate the variants of causal factors.