Care of an acutely ill parturient is particularly difficult when we have to balance the needs of both mother and the fetus to survive. The literature suggests there should be emphasis on stabilising the mother's condition. In dealing with metabolic acidosis, however, we believe delivering the baby early might not only relieve the threat of the acidosis on the mother, it may be the only way to d...

UNLABELLED We report the case of a pregnant woman presenting with Guillain-Barré syndrome in which her neurologic status worsened immediately after delivery under epidural analgesia. We believe that the anesthetic technique may have played a role in the disease progression. Because of this potential association, the risks of worsening neurologic status after regional anesthesia and alternative ...

Background: Desert plants cannot provide all the animals’ requirements for calcium and mineral deficiency in camels. This condition is mostly aggravated dry seasons. The present study investigates hypocalcemia pre-parturient post-parturient Methods: In a camel herd, 25 out of 96 pregnant animals showed clinical signs within week after parturition. Two camels had abortions, 9 that gave birth die...

A descriptive epidemiological study was carried out for understanding the ranking order and temporal distribution of parturient haemoglobinuria in buffalo. For this data recorded from each household eight randomly selected villages. Parturient ranked as number one disease among all observed cases with respect to mortality (1.03%) proportional (29.41%) rate appeared 4thand 3rdposition incidence ...

there are many factors contributing to success of regional anesthesia. patients’ attitude toward spinal anesthesia is one of the most important of these factors. this is a descriptive study performed on 100 healthy parturient selected for elective cesarean section in alzahra obstetric hospital,tabriz, iran. the aim of this study was to evaluate patients’ attitude and their knowledge about spina...

background & aim:the quality of communication between midwives and parturient women is a determinant of maternal satisfaction with midwifery care. therefore, this study was conducted to determine the communication skills of midwives at maternity wards of mashhad teaching hospitals in 2014.   methods:in this descriptive study, 49 midwives, working at mashhad teaching hospitals, were randomly sel...

Neuraxial analgesia and anesthesia are routinely administered to the parturient. A devastating, albeit rare, complication of neuraxial anesthesia is spinal or epidural hematoma, and primarily occurs in patients with disorders of hemostasis. A parturient with a clinically active coagulation disorder, or someone with a history of easy bruising and/or bleeding, is considered to have an absolute co...