Clinical Anesthesia 3/1965: Obstetric Complications

Serious complications related to obstetric anesthesia: the serious complication repository project of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology.

BACKGROUND Because of the lack of large obstetric anesthesia databases, the incidences of serious complications related to obstetric anesthesia remain unknown. The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology developed the Serious Complication Repository Project to establish the incidence of serious complications related to obstetric anesthesia and to identify risk factors associated with ...

Obstetric Regional Anesthesia

Most women experience moderate to severe pain during labor and delivery, often requiring some form of pharmacologic analgesia.1 The lack of proper psychological preparation combined with fear and anxiety can greatly enhance the patient’s sensitivity to pain and further add to the discomfort during labor and delivery. However, skillfully conducted obstetric analgesia, in addition to relieving pa...

Obstetric Anesthesia Section Editor

Very small doses of intrathecal (IT) morphine (25– 200 mg) have been used in an effort to provide effective postoperative pain relief while minimizing side effects after cesarean delivery. We performed a doubleblinded study in 40 patients presenting for elective cesarean delivery in which IT morphine was administered along with oral hydrocodone/acetaminophen and other medications commonly admin...

Obstetric complications in schizophrenia

(BDQ). They were also interviewed using a semi-structured schedule focussed on the phenomenon of bodily change. Each subject was also asked to attempt an estimation of the size of body parts on a linear presentation. All groups over-estimated their body size, with females significantly more so than males. Apart from a non-significant trend for female schizophrenics to over-estimate to a greater...

Management in Obstetric Complications