Observational study of peripheral skin temperature changes following spinal anaesthesia for caesarean birth

Neuraxial anaesthesia and analgesia is the mainstay of obstetric anaesthetic practice. In England, 44.6% of all childbirth episodes involve a spinal or epidural procedure to provide analgesia in labour or anaesthesia for a caesarean birth, with 97.3% of all caesarean births conducted using neuraxial anaesthesia.1 The benefits of spinal anaesthesia as choice of anaesthesia for a caesarean birth include allowing the mother to be conscious at the birth of her baby to support early maternal-baby bonding, avoiding the risks of general anaesthesia and facilitating good quality postoperative analgesia to allow earlier postoperative mobilisation and better quality of life postoperatively compared with general anaesthesia.
Source: International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Original Article Source Type: research