Article
Thermoregulation and obstetric regional anaesthesia
2019-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Neuraxial blockade is used to provide analgesia for labour and anaesthesia for caesarean section in approximately one third of deliveries in the UK (more than 200 000 per year)8. Although neuraxial blockade is considered lower risk than general anaesthesia9, it is frequently complicated by tremor and a rise in body temperature (~epidural fever~)12. Anecdotally the tremor is extremely unpleasant and epidural fever...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 77b61ef4-bdbd-53df-8088-05009febfabe
- DOI
- 10.25560/86256
