Present and emerging strategies for reducing anesthesia-related maternal morbidity and mortality

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 330-335

  Arendt, Katherine W ^b   Segal, Scott ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Maternal morbidity; Maternal mortality; Obstetric anesthesia morbidity; Obstetric anesthesia mortality

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALCOHOL; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CHLORHEXIDINE; FIBRINOGEN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; LIDOCAINE; LIPID EMULSION; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; POVIDONE IODINE; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A;

AIRWAY; ANESTHESIST; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTISEPSIS; ARACHNOIDITIS; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOPRECIPITATE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LUNG ASPIRATION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MENINGITIS; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; NERVE INJURY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; PARAPLEGIA; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL ROOT;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 67649515383     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e3283298746     Document Type: Review

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