Special Interest Session

SIS-14 - Low Pressure Headaches: What Are You Missing?

Thursday, September 7, 2023

1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST

Location: Gracia 3 & 4

CE: Contact Hours: 1 | ANCC RX: 0| AANP RX: 0 | Mate: 0

Co-Presenter(s)

Ian Carroll, MD

Associate Professor - University Medical Line, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Stanford Hospital & Clinics
Redwood City, California

Slides
Andrew L. Callen, MD

Assistant Professor of Radiology
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Denver, CO

Slides

The understanding of Low Pressure Headaches has advanced dramatically in the last decade, and each new discovery calls our previous assumptions into further doubt. We will cover advances in the understanding of the limitations of opening pressure, the importance of the discovery of CSF- venous fistulas, and the use of the Bern Score of brain imaging findings to stratify probability of spinal CSF leak in patients with refractory headaches.