Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-6d856f89d9-8l2sj Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-16T07:42:44.825Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Chapter 61 - Anesthesia for a Cesarean Delivery

from Section 6 - Obstetric Anesthesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2023

By
Elvera L. Baron  and
Jessica A. Lovich-Sapola
Edited by
Jessica A. Lovich-Sapola
Jessica A. Lovich-Sapola
Affiliation:
Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
Get access

Summary

A 30-year-old G1P0 patient with a history of asthma presents for an urgent cesarean section due to fetal breech positioning. She is in active labor, dilated to 6 cm. Would you administer general or neuraxial anesthetic? Provide risks and benefits for each choice.

Type
Chapter
Information
Anesthesia Oral Board Review
Knocking Out The Boards
 , pp. 263 - 265
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Barash, PG, Cullen, BF, Stoelting, RK. Clinical Anesthesia, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2017, pp. 1152–4.Google Scholar
Chestnut, DH. Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice, 6th ed. Philadelphia: Mosby, 2020, pp. 568–626.Google Scholar
Manullang, GTR, Christopher, MV, Pace, NL. Intrathecal fentanyl is superior to intravenous ondansetron for the prevention of perioperative nausea during cesarean delivery with spinal anesthesia. Anesth Analg 2000;90:1162–6.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Miller, RD, Fleisher, LA, Johns, RA, et al. Anesthesia, 9th ed. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 2020, pp. 2006–41.Google ScholarPubMed
Urman, RD, Kaye, AD. Obstetric Anesthesia Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 203–13.Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×