Anaesthesia for Caesarean section in a patient with recent subarachnoid haemorrhage and severe pre-eclampsia

Anaesthesia

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 994-998

  Levy, D M ^a   Jaspan, T ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pregnancy, complications; subarachnoid haemorrhage, pre eclampsia Anaesthesia, obstetric; Caesarean section

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM SULFATE; NIMODIPINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MESENCEPHALON; NECK; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHOTOPHOBIA; PREECLAMPSIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; RIGIDITY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYMPTOM; UNITED KINGDOM; VASOSPASM;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0032883661     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1999.01110.x     Document Type: Article

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