Surgical anatomy of the spinal accessory nerve: is the great auricular point reliable?
The great auricular point is a reliable landmark for identification of the accessory nerve during the neck dissection.
Patients with postdural puncture headache should not be denied the benefits of an epidural blood patch because of concerns about the impairment of subsequent epidural anesthetics. The success rate of subsequent epidural anesthesia and analgesia in patients who have undergone dural puncture with or without epidural blood patch is similar to that of patients who have undergone two prior epidural anesthetics.