Anaesthesia for Caesarean section. The potential for regional block
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Anaesthesia for caesarean section.
Quality and choice in anaesthesia for caesarean section have significantly improved over the last two decades. During this time, general anaesthesia usage has decreased to the point where, in some centres, it is an occasionally used technique for severe fetal distress. This change in practice may have been responsible for the fall in anaesthetic deaths in pregnant women that has occurred over t...
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BACKGROUND Anaesthesia guidelines recommend regional anaesthesia for most caesarean sections due to the risk of failed intubation and aspiration with general anaesthesia. However, general anaesthesia is considered to be safe for the foetus, based on limited evidence, and is still used for caesarean sections. METHODS Cohorts of caesarean sections by indication (that is, planned repeat caesarea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0003-2409,1365-2044
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1982.tb01315.x