Anesthetic management of super-morbidly obese parturients for cesarean delivery with a double neuraxial catheter technique: A case series

International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 276-280

  Polin, C M ^a,b   Hale, B ^a   Mauritz, A A ^a   Habib, A S ^a   Jones, C A ^a   Strouch, Z Y ^a   Dominguez, J E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b American Anesthesiology of North Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Cesarean section; Epidural; Morbid obesity; Obstetric; Spinal

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CEFAZOLIN; ENOXAPARIN; FENTANYL; HYDROMORPHONE; MORPHINE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; ANESTHETIC CATHETER; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; BOLUS INJECTION; CASE REPORT; CATHETER REMOVAL; CESAREAN SECTION; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTEROTOMY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRATHECAL CATHETER; MATERNAL DISEASE; MORBID OBESITY; NONINVASIVE VENTILATION; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; SKIN INCISION; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SUPER MORBID OBESITY; SURGICAL APPROACH; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UTERUS MYOMA; CATHETER; COMPLICATION; DEVICES; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; CATHETERS; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBESITY, MORBID; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84942991061     PISSN: 0959289X     EISSN: 15323374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijoa.2015.04.001     Document Type: Article

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