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Indications for caesarean section.
Caesarean section rates are rising. Caesarean section confers an increase in maternal mortality and morbidity as well as having considerable financial implications. Caesarean section is usually justified by the assumed benefit for the fetus. These benefits are often unquantified and based on scanty evidence. The changing trends in the rates of caesarean section for various indications may be ex...
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Sir,—I read with interest the article entitled "Trachea! rupture after tracheal intubation" by Regragui, Fagan and Natrajan [1]. The authors described the anaesthetic management of a patient with a distal tracheal tear. The trachea was intubated initially with an 8-mm tracheal rube under bronchoscopic guidance with the distal end of the tube above the tracheal tear. After right rhoracotomy was ...
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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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Self Assessment Q1 When considering indications and categorisation of caesarean sections: a) Caesarean section caries an overall higher neonatal mortality compared with normal delivery? b) Recommended population caesarean section rates are less than 5%? c) Breech presentations should routinely be booked for a Category 4 caesarean section? d) A category 1 caesarean section should aim to be deliv...
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Despite the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation that caesarean section (c-section) rates should not exceed 15% [1], the high rates in some countries are cause for concern. For example, Italy, China, Mexico and Brazil all have rates higher than 36% [2] with great variation within each nation. The need for c-section has probably increased for many reasons, including rising rates of o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/75.5.666-a