General anaesthesia for operative obstetrics

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 317-319

  Banks, Amelia ^a,b   Levy, David ^a,b  

^a Nottingham and East Midlands School of Anaesthesia   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aspiration; awareness; caesarean section; failed intubation; pre eclampsia; rapid sequence induction

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ANALGESIC AGENT; CITRATE SODIUM; ETOMIDATE; HALOTHANE; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; MORPHINE; NITROUS OXIDE PLUS OXYGEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYGEN; PARACETAMOL; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; ROCURONIUM; SEVOFLURANE; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL;

ACCURACY; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ASPIRATION; AWARENESS; BISPECTRAL INDEX; BLEEDING; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CESAREAN SECTION; COMORBIDITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTUBATION; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTUBATION; LICENCE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PATIENT POSITIONING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PLACENTA PREVIA; PREECLAMPSIA; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; STOMACH CONTENT; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; UMBILICAL CORD COMPLICATION; UTERUS;

EID: 34547133253     PISSN: 14720299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpaic.2007.05.007     Document Type: Review

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