Practice Guidelines for Obstetric Anesthesia: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Obstetric Anesthesia and the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology ∗

Anesthesiology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 270-300

  Apfelbaum, Jeffrey L ^a   Hawkins, Joy L ^a   Agarkar, Madhulika ^a   Bucklin, Brenda A ^a   Connis, Richard T ^a   Gambling, David R ^a   Mhyre, Jill ^a   Nickinovich, David G ^a   Sherman, Heather ^a   Tsen, Lawrence C ^a   Yaghmour, Edward T A ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTACID AGENT; EPHEDRINE; FIBRINOGEN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METOCLOPRAMIDE; OPIATE; PHENYLEPHRINE; TERBUTALINE SULFATE;

APGAR SCORE; CESAREAN SECTION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LABOR; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RESUSCITATION; RETAINED PLACENTA; REVIEW; SPINAL NEEDLE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRIAL OF LABOR; UTERINE TUBE LIGATION; UTERUS RELAXATION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; ADVISORY COMMITTEE; PERINATOLOGY; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERINATOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84955672312     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000000935     Document Type: Review

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