Obesity and pregnancy

Current Anaesthesia and Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 125-129

  Brockelsby, Jeremy ^a   Dresner, Martin ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Complications; Obesity; Obstetric

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DELIVERY; EPIDEMIC; FETUS RISK; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LABOR COMPLICATION; OBESITY; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RISK MANAGEMENT; SHOULDER DYSTOCIA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VASCULAR ACCESS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33750833739     PISSN: 09537112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cacc.2006.02.010     Document Type: Article

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