RT Book, Section
A1 Yeomans, Edward R.
A1 Hoffman, Barbara L.
A1 Gilstrap III, Larry C.
A1 Cunningham, F. Gary
SR Print(0)
ID 1138214302
T1 Anesthesia for the Pregnant Woman
T2 Cunningham and Gilstrap's Operative Obstetrics, 3e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071849067
LK obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1138214302
RD 2024/04/24
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.