Labour-induced sickle cell crisis in a previously asymptomatic parturient with sickle cell disease

Anaesthesia

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1044-1045

  Kuczkowski, K M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; ROPIVACAINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; AGITATION; ANAMNESIS; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; BACKACHE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; DEHYDRATION; DELIVERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HOMELESSNESS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOXIA; LABOR; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRENATAL CARE; PULSE OXIMETRY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SICKLE CELL CRISIS; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC;

EID: 0141886374     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.03415_26.x     Document Type: Letter

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