FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/03297
- Request Date
- September 5, 2019
- Subject
- Blood Patch Procedures
- Description
I write to request information on the number of blood patch procedures carried out in the trust in each of the past ten years.
I also request a breakdown of:
a) the condition which the blood patch was intended to treat
b) the title of the doctor or doctors who carried out the procedure, for example, anesthetist, neurologist, neurosurgeon.
- Response
a).
Primary Diagnosis Description 2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Grand Total Complications of anaesthesia during labour and delivery 1 5 1 4 3 1 1 1 17 Complications of anaesthesia during the puerperium 2 1 1 2 1 3 10 Headache 1 1 1 3 Inflammatory disorders of breast 1 1 Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung 1 1 Migraine 1 1 Other cerebrovascular diseases 1 1 Other complications of surgical and medical care NEC 1 1 2 Other disorders of amniotic fluid and membranes 1 1 Other headache syndromes 1 1 Postpartum haemorrhage 1 1 Postprocedural disorders of nervous system, NEC 1 2 1 3 7 Tubulo-interstitial nephritis not spec as acute or chronic 1 1 Grand Total 4 2 6 4 12 7 3 4 5 47 b). It is not possible to accurately answer this from the data – all but two identified in the theatre system data were carried out by an anesthetist; the other two had both a surgeon and an anesthetist present, and there is nothing in the data to indicate who administered the path, but it is most likely that all were carried out by the anesthetist.
To provide further information would require a manual trawl of patient case notes which would constitute a disproportionate effort to retrieve. This information is therefore exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1)).