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Anesthesia for cesarean section: minimizing risk and complications

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  • 1Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Managing cesarean section anesthesia is challenging and fraught with hazards. Each anesthetic option has different maternal and fetal risks. Emphasis on regional anesthesia when possible and utilization of state-of-the-art monitoring such as pulse oximetry and end-tidal capnography will improve the anesthetic outcome.

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