Neuraxial anesthesia for cesarean delivery: What criteria define the "optimal" technique?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1370-1373

  Benhamou, Dan ^a   Wong, Cynthia ^b  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; OPIATE; SEVOFLURANE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA; CESAREAN SECTION; DOSE RESPONSE; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; NEURAXIAL ANESTHESIA; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; NOTE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREGNANCY; TIME;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CESAREAN SECTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREGNANCY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350743284     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181b5b10c     Document Type: Editorial

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