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A coffee lover’s fantasy, IV caffeine, has arrived.
Coffee drinkers who get an intravenous caffeine drip are less likely to wake up from surgery with a headache, said Dr. Joseph Weber.
In studies at Mayo Clinics in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Rochester, Minn., Weber found that people used to getting a daily dose of caffeine had a 25 percent chance of a post-surgery headache.
But he said an 8-ounce caffeinated drink reduced the chance of a headache to 10 percent. It doesn’t matter if the patient gets that caffeine through a tube before coming out of anesthesia, as a drink in the recovery room or as a drink hours before surgery, he said.
