The challenges of obesity and obstetric anaesthesia

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 631-635

  Saravanakumar, Kanakarajan ^a   Rao, Sudarsan Gururaja ^a   Cooper, Griselda M ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complications; Labour analgesia; Obese women; Obstetric anaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTACID AGENT; MORPHINE; OPIATE; REMIFENTANIL;

ASTHMA; ASYSTOLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BRADYCARDIA; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG FATALITY; ENDOMETRITIS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS OUTCOME; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; LABOR; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PAIN; POSTNATAL CARE; PREECLAMPSIA; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; OBESITY; PRECONCEPTION CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PUERPERAL DISORDERS;

EID: 33750966747     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e3280101019     Document Type: Review

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