Surgical sensation during caesarean section: a qualitative analysis

Caesarean section (CS) is a major surgery performed on young and often healthy patients. It is a significant and emotional milestone. Neuraxial anaesthesia is the preferred anaesthetic for CS because it has a better safety profile, avoids airway management, decreases blood loss, improves postoperative analgesia, and decreases neonatal drug exposure compared with general anaesthesia.1 It allows the patient and partner to experience the delivery, enhancing parent-baby bonding,1 but has many well described risks, including hypotension leading to nausea, shivering, post-dural puncture headache, nerve injury, and failure to achieve satisfactory anaesthesia.
Source: International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Original Article Source Type: research