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Anesthesia management for open fetal intrauterine surgery
1Department of Anesthesiology, Foshan Children and Maternal Hospital, Foshan, Guangdong Province, China. jipingliu@126.com
Objective:
Open fetal surgery is usually performed during the second trimester in a fetus suffering from severe congenital diseases, thus enabling the pregnancy to continue until delivery.
Materials And Methods:
The key of this treatment is to promote uterine relaxation enough to maintain both maternal and fetal circulation stable and once surgery is completed, to offer a perfect analgesic to avoid the contractions due to pain, and finally to reduce preterm delivery.
Results:
Successful anesthesia is fundamental to this surgery.
Conclusion:
The authors have performed three cases under inhalation anesthesia combined with successful epidural anesthesia.
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