Luol Deng with PDPH

[reanimatore]

Sounds like Luol Deng, who is an NBA all-star for the Chicago Bulls, got a pdph after an LP.

I'm sure an ER doc used a harpoon for the tap. Too bad anesthesia didn't get any props for placing the blood patch, could've been a bit of good press.


http://espn.go.com/chicago/nba/stor...-luol-deng-chicago-bulls-ruled-illness-game-7

 

[Direct Laryngoscopy]

Steve Bartman might finally get off the city's sports s**t list after that EM physician's complication.

But seriously, I hope he was at least offered a blood patch.

 

[TrojanGopher]

But seriously, I hope he was at least offered a blood patch.

"A source close to the situation also said that Deng had to undergo a separate procedure in relation to the spinal tap procedure to stop leaking spinal fluid."

Can't imagine it was anything other than a blood patch.

 

[fakin' the funk]

I wonder if NBA players have a higher risk of PDPH. Maybe the very tall height of the column of CSF forcing leakage through the dural hole makes headache more likely. That'd be a cool study.

 

[lane]

Sounds like Luol Deng, who is an NBA all-star for the Chicago Bulls, got a pdph after an LP.

I'm sure an ER doc used a harpoon for the tap. Too bad anesthesia didn't get any props for placing the blood patch, could've been a bit of good press.


http://espn.go.com/chicago/nba/stor...-luol-deng-chicago-bulls-ruled-illness-game-7

May have been an interventional radiologist for all we know

 

[Ronin786]

"A source close to the situation also said that Deng had to undergo a separate procedure in relation to the spinal tap procedure to stop leaking spinal fluid."

Can't imagine it was anything other than a blood patch.

Yeah, I think one of the Bulls beat reporters tweeted that he underwent a blood patch.

 

[dhb]

21g FTW 😀