Hypotension during spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section: Implications, detection prevention and treatment

Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 157-183

  Khaw, Kim S ^a   Kee, Warwick D Ngan ^a   Lee, Shara W Y ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; EPHEDRINE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; METARAMINOL; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ACIDOSIS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRADYCARDIA; CESAREAN SECTION; COLLOID; CRYSTALLOID; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRASYSTOLE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ACID BASE BALANCE; FETUS HYPOXIA; FINGER ARTERIAL PRESSURE; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART DISEASE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PALPITATION; HEART PRELOAD; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; LEG COMPRESSION; NAUSEA; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; OSCILLOMETRY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREECLAMPSIA; PULSATILE DRUG RELEASE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TACHYCARDIA; TONOMETRY; VOMITING;

EID: 33746652622     PISSN: 09655395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0965539506001756     Document Type: Review

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