In:
Obstetric Anesthesia Digest, Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), Vol. 38, No. 1 ( 2018-03), p. 31-33
Abstract:
( Anaesthesia . 2017;72(5):603–608) Hypotension after spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery is a significant complication that can adversely affect both the mother and her unborn child. In fact, in South Africa a majority of anesthesia-related maternal deaths occur in women receiving spinal anesthesia with 〉 50% associated with spinal-induced hypotension. Therefore, a method to predict preoperatively which patients will experience this complication would be highly desirable, with the potential to alter patient management and improve outcomes. Previous studies have found that heart rate variability (HRV) analysis, which serves as a measure of autonomic function, can predict spinal-induced hypotension in parturients. In this prospective observational study from South Africa, HRV was evaluated in comparison to other potential predictors of hypotension [baseline heart rate and body mass index (BMI)] in women undergoing elective cesarean section under spinal anesthesia.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0275-665X
DOI:
10.1097/01.aoa.0000529996.17787.88
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Publication Date:
2018
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2071164-5
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