Prospective, randomized trial comparing general with spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery in preeclamptic patients with a nonreassuring fetal heart trace

Anesthesiology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 561-569

  Dyer, Robert A ^a   Els, Ilse ^a   Farbas, Josef ^a   Torr, Gregory J ^a   Schoeman, Leann K ^a   James, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CARBON DIOXIDE; EPHEDRINE; FENTANYL; ISOFLURANE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MORPHINE; NITROUS OXIDE; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; APGAR SCORE; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FETUS HEART RATE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; APGAR SCORE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CESAREAN SECTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL HEART; FETAL HYPOXIA; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INFANT, NEWBORN; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0042827296     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200309000-00010     Document Type: Article

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