TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Anesthesia for the Pregnant Woman A1 - Yeomans, Edward R. A1 - Hoffman, Barbara L. A1 - Gilstrap III, Larry C. A1 - Cunningham, F. Gary PY - 2017 T2 - Cunningham and Gilstrap's Operative Obstetrics, 3e AB - Modern anesthesia practice has an excellent record of safety for the parturient. The anesthesia-related maternal mortality rate in the United States is estimated at 1 per 1 million live births (Hawkins, 2011). Indeed, in the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Creanga and colleagues (2015) cited anesthesia as the cause of pregnancy-related death in only 0.7 percent of maternal deaths in the United States from 2006 to 2010. Also, the 2010 to 2012 triennial report from the United Kingdom and Ireland described a direct anesthetic mortality rate of 0.17 per 100,000 maternities (Knight, 2014). Finally, the Serious Complication Repository (SCORE) Project of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) captured data from 257,000 parturients receiving an anesthetic between 2009 and 2014 (D'Angelo, 2014). No deaths were reported, and serious anesthesia-related complications occurred in 1 of 3000 patients. The most frequent was high neuraxial block. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1138214302 ER -