Caffeine Versus Placebo for Spinal Headaches

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Caffeine will be studied against placebo in patients with positional headache after a lumbar puncture (aka "spinal headache").

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: United States Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth
• Treatments: Caffeine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• diagnosed with post dural puncture headache

Exclusion Criteria:

• age < 18

• pregnant

• allergic to caffeine

• cardiac or peripheral vascular disease

• uncontrolled hypertension