Labor Epidural Analgesia to Cesarean Section Anesthetic Conversion Failure: A National Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

If conversion of labor epidural analgesia to cesarean delivery anesthesia fails, the anesthesiologist can be confronted with a challenging clinical dilemma. Optimal management of a failed epidural top up continues to be debated in the absence of best practice guidelines.

Method

All members of the Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association in the United Kingdom were emailed an online survey in May 2017. It obtained information on factors influencing the decision to utilize an existing labor epidural for cesarean section and, if epidural top up resulted in no objective sensory block, bilateral T10 sensory block, or unilateral T6 sensory block, factors influencing the management and selection of anesthetic technique. Differences in management options between respondents we

SUBMITTER: Desai N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6589285 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature