Cesarean delivery in the obese parturient: Anesthetic considerations

Women's Health

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-179

  Loubert, Christian ^a   Fernando, Roshan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cesarean delivery; combined spinal epidural; general anesthesia; obesity; obstetric anesthesia; pregnancy; regional anesthesia

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; RANITIDINE; ROCURONIUM; SUGAMMADEX; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ACID ASPIRATION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY MASS; CESAREAN SECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUNG COLLAPSE; OBESITY; PATIENT MOBILITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SAFETY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PUERPERIUM; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION;

ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANTACIDS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BODY MASS INDEX; CESAREAN SECTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBESITY; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL CARE;

EID: 79952791896     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/whe.10.77     Document Type: Review

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