Spinal Anesthesia For C Section

There are other reasons why general anesthesia may be a better kind of anesthesia for your c section.

Spinal anesthesia for c section. According to john s. The sympathetic block can exceed motor sensory by two dermatomes. However if you are concerned talk to your provider to ease your anxiety.

The decision to do general anesthesia will be decided by you and your anesthesiologist. Its meaning is that the woman is injected anesthetic into the lumbar region of the back in podavlennoe space between the vertebrae. Mcdonald md chairman of the department of anesthesiology and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at ucla medical center spinal block has emerged as the preferred approach to cesarean section anesthesia based on the finding of higher maternal mortality among patients who undergo general anesthesia.

In general there is not much to worry about spinal anaesthesia. The primary disadvantage is the potential for severe hypotension consider prehydration with 20 cc kg proper positioning and keeping phenylephrine and epinephrine on hand. Spinal anesthesia involves piercing the dense membrane that surrounds the spinal cord.

Spinal anesthesia has little effect on ventilation but high spinals can affect abdominal intercostal muscles and the ability to cough. Whether you have general spinal or epidural anesthesia for a cesarean birth will depend on your health and that of your baby. Spinal block is often used as c sections are generally not a long procedure.

Spinal anesthesia recently has gained popularity for elective cesarean section our anesthesia service changed from epidural to spinal anesthesia for elective cesarean section in 1991. It also depends on why the c section is being performed. Therefore a continuous drip of anaesthesia i e.

Spinal anesthesia has the advantages of being easy to perform requiring less time and being more reliable than epidural analgesia. A spinal anesthetic can be given in a variety of settings for a variety of surgeries but here we are discussing it in the context of a cesarean section c section. Any emergency during labor where the baby must be delivered very quickly and there is not enough time to do epidural or spinal anesthesia.