Emergency Cesarean delivery for umbilical cord prolapse: The head-down, knee-chest prone position for spinal anesthesia

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 612-615

  Ginosar, Yehuda ^a   Weiniger, Carolyn ^a   Elchalal, Uriel ^a   Davidson, Elyad ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; MORPHINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY POSTURE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FETAL WELL BEING; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; MORBID OBESITY; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; OBSTETRIC EMERGENCY; OPERATING ROOM; PALPATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SUPINE POSITION; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL CORD PROLAPSE; UTERUS;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; CESAREAN SECTION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; POSTURE; PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 51549106275     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03021435     Document Type: Article

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