Anaesthesia for emergency caesarean section in a parturient with bleeding placenta praevia and a potentially malignant hyperthermia-susceptible fetus.

abstract：:The pressor response is known to be exaggerated in patients with pregnancy-induced hypertension, which can result in increased morbidity and mortality in both mother and newborn. Various pharmacological agents have been used before induction in an attempt to attenuate the adrenergic response but with varying degree of...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Bansal S,Pawar M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Onset times and conditions for intubation after rocuronium versus suxamethonium at cesarean section have been evaluated, but no study thus far has examined the influence of these neuromuscular blocking drugs on the surgical conditions or their effect on the duration of surgery and the ease of fetal delivery....

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Bláha J,Nosková P,Hlinecká K,Krakovská V,Fundová V,Bartošová T,Michálek P,Stříteský M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present our experience in the anesthetic management of two parturients with pseudoxanthoma elasticum. The first had an epidural catheter inserted for labor analgesia and ultimately had a forceps delivery. The second had a cesarean section under epidural anesthesia and had a complicated postoperative course. There w...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Douglas MJ,Gunka VB,von Dadelszen P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urticaria pigmentosa is a cutaneous variant of mastocytosis. This is a complex group of diseases distinguished by abnormal aggregation of mast cells within the skin and other organs. Mast cell degranulation and subsequent release of vasoactive amines may occur in response to a variety of non-immune triggers leading to...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Gupta S,Gilder F,Glazebrook C

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-existing epidural analgesia was rapidly extended in 36 consecutive patients presenting for emergency caesarean section by using 20 ml of 2% lignocaine + 1/200,000 adrenaline freshly prepared given by slow bolus injection. Despite a wide range of initial analgesic sensory levels the technique produced blocks that w...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Price ML,Reynolds F,Morgan BM

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cesarean birth is known as both cesarean section (CS) and cesarean delivery (CD). The International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia (IJOA) is the leading obstetric anesthesia journal, and a barometer of attitudes within the profession. The journal recently published the hundredth issue, spanning 25 years (to...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Ni L,Elsaharty A,McConachie I

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary atresia witha ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries is an extremely rare congenital disorder characterized by a high risk of maternal mortality. We present the case of a 24-year-old primigravid woman with uncorrected pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect and major aort...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Gang SP,Fang KY,Ma Y,Zhang FX,Xiang DK,Liu XL,Wang RP,Chen DD,Ma XW

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP) is a rare but probably under-diagnosed disorder of peripheral nerves in which individuals suffer from repeated motor and sensory neuropathies (pressure palsies) following brief nerve compression or mild trauma. A seemingly trivial insult such as sitting or ...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Lepski GR,Alderson JD

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Administration of packed red blood cells (PRBC) and fresh frozen plasma (FFP) to women with postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) before and after introduction of a massive transfusion protocol. METHODS:The retrospective PPH study cohort of two tertiary centers was identified using blood bank records, verified by pat...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Weiniger CF,Yakirevich-Amir N,Sela HY,Gural A,Ioscovich A,Einav S

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Between 10-22% of the general population experience needle phobia. Needle phobic parturients are at increased risk of adverse outcomes. We assessed the efficacy of topical Ametop™ (tetracaine 4%) gel in reducing the pain associated with local anesthetic skin infiltration before neuraxial block in non-laborin...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Kavanagh T,Dube A,Albert A,Gunka V

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Superficial bleeding after labor epidural catheter placement is a common phenomenon. In addition to delaying securing the epidural catheter, it may loosen the adhesive catheter dressing. The primary aim of this study was to determine whether skin infiltration with epinephrine-containing rather than plain lid...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Carvalho B,Fuller A,Brummel C,Cohen SE

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy has been reported to enhance the sensitivity of nerves to local anesthetics and to decrease anesthetic requirements during regional anesthesia. In this study, whether pregnancy increased the efficacy of lumbar epidural anesthesia was evaluated. Two populations (14 pregnant and 14 non-pregnant women) undergoi...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Arakawa M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Accurately predicting cesarean delivery case duration is an integral component of designing appropriate workflow protocols and ensuring adequate provider availability. Our primary objective was to describe the variability of case duration, based on factors that we hypothesized would be influential, such as...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Harris MJ,Gabriel RA,Dutton RP,Urman RD

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supraventricular tachycardia is uncommon in pregnancy. It is defined as intermittent pathological and usually narrow complex tachycardia >120 beats/min which originates above the ventricle, excluding atrial fibrillation, flutter and multifocal atrial tachycardia. It is usually self-limiting or relatively easily treate...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Dennis AT,Gerstman MD

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a parturient with documented chronic Chagas' disease with cardiac manifestations presenting for labor management and complicated by the need for emergent hysterectomy after delivery. Chagas' disease is a common human hematogenous trypanosomiasis in Central and South America which is now, because of...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Martin HB,Wills J

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A head-elevation pillow places a patient in a ramped posture, which maximises the view of the larynx during laryngoscopy, particularly in obese parturients. In our institution an elevation pillow is used pre-emptively for neuraxial anaesthesia. We hypothesised that head-elevation may impair cephalad spread o...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Elfil H,Crowley L,Segurado R,Spring A

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary pulmonary hypertension is a fatal disease that frequently becomes evident in pregnancy. The management of pregnant women with primary pulmonary hypertension poses a number of difficult problems, especially where regional anesthesia is considered to be contraindicated. A 30-year-old woman who developed primary ...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Toyama H,Wagatsuma T,Ejima Y,Matsubara M,Kurosawa S

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of severe respiratory depression in the obstetric population are presented. The first occurred after intrathecal injection of a modest dose (50 mg) of meperidine. The second followed intrathecal administration of 10 microg of sufentanil after intravenous fentanyl. These cases illustrate the potential gravity...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Jaffee JB,Drease GE,Kelly T,Newman LM

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores which concentrations of local anesthetics might be expected to inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus. Serial dilutions were made of 0.5% and 0.75% bupivacaine, 2% and 5% lidocaine, 2% and 3% chloroprocaine, and 0.2% and 1% ropivacaine. To each concentration of local anesthetic solution, Muell...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Goodman EJ,Jacobs MR,Bajaksouzian S,Windau AR,Dagirmanjian JP

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ketamine at subanesthetic doses has analgesic properties that have been shown to reduce postoperative pain and morphine consumption. We hypothesized that intravenous ketamine 10mg administered during spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery, in addition to intrathecal morphine and intravenous ketorolac, would...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Bauchat JR,Higgins N,Wojciechowski KG,McCarthy RJ,Toledo P,Wong CA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The administration of intravenous dantrolene in a parturient susceptible to malignant hyperthermia has been associated with post partum uterine atony. We examined the effect of dantrolene sodium for injection (Dantrium Intravenous) on spontaneous contractility of uterine smooth muscle from women in term pregnancy in a...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Shin YK,Kim YD,Collea JV,Belcher MD

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood pressure monitoring is a critical component of antenatal, peripartum and postnatal care. The accurate detection and treatment of abnormal blood pressure during pregnancy is essential for the optimisation of maternal and neonatal outcomes. Increasing maternal obesity in western populations is well documented. The...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Eley VA,Christensen R,Kumar S,Callaway LK

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spinal anesthesia is a standard technique for cesarean section but can cause hypotension which may be related to venous pooling secondary to progesterone-induced decreases in vascular tone. This study investigated the use of a sequential compression mechanical pump with thigh-high sleeves with compression cy...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Sujata N,Arora D,Panigrahi BP,Hanjoora VM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water intoxication during pregnancy is an uncommon event, usually associated with iatrogenic fluid overload, the prolonged administration of high doses of oxytocin or psychiatric disorder. This case report describes water intoxication presenting as the sudden onset of grand mal convulsions in the immediate postpartum ...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Paech MJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Velocardiofacial or 22q11 deletion syndrome is a genetic condition caused by deletion 22q11, the deletion of a small segment of the long arm of chromosome 22. To our knowledge this is the first case report of a woman with Velocardiofacial syndrome presenting in late pregnancy for caesarean delivery. She had undergone ...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Cohen V,Powell E,Lake C

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A national survey of current practice and preferred drug choices for both induction and maintenance of general anaesthesia for caesarean section was undertaken. METHODS:Following approval by the Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association, all UK consultant members were invited to respond to an electronic survey. ...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Murdoch H,Scrutton M,Laxton CH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the 2012 "What's new in obstetric anesthesia?" review is to highlight important scientific and medical advances in the fields of obstetric anesthesiology, obstetrics and perinatology from literature published in 2011. This review will consider advances in the prevention and treatment of important obstetric ...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Butwick AJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past two decades has seen a growing understanding that health care leads to harm in a large number of patients. With this insight has come an understanding that clinicians who care for patients who are harmed experience an understandable and predictable emotional response. After an adverse event, medical care give...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Pratt SD,Jachna BR

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 30-year-old parturient diagnosed in the first trimester of her first pregnancy as having paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria. Pancytopenia necessitated regular transfusion of blood products. The risks of infection, haemorrhage and thrombosis, in the presence of severe thrombocytopenia, mild n...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Paech MJ,Pavy TJ

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most pregnant women who self-report penicillin allergy are not truly penicillin-allergic and this misunderstanding often leads to administration of inappropriate antibiotic therapy. Decision algorithms have been developed to guide antibiotic selection but major discrepancies have been reported between guidel...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Thellier C,Subtil D,Pelletier de Chambure D,Grandbastien B,Catteau C,Beaugendre A,Poitrenaud D,Prevotat A,Richart P,Faure K,Le Guern R

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00