Limiting the dose of local anaesthetic for caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia - Has the limbo bar been set too low?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 347-351

  Rucklidge, M W M ^a   Paech, M J ^b,c  

^a ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; EPHEDRINE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; INFUSION FLUID; METARAMINOL; OPIATE; PHENYLEPHRINE;

CESAREAN SECTION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INDUCED HYPOTENSION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PAIN; PREECLAMPSIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CESAREAN SECTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84858305362     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2012.07104.x     Document Type: Review

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