Episode 53: Analgesia for C-section with Mike Hofkamp
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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Do I Need Aspiration Prophylaxis if I Have a Repeat Cesarean Section?
One of the things we come up against a lot on the labor and delivery unit is when you have a non-elective case that needs to be done or the patient isn't NPO at this point it becomes a negotiation between the obstetric colleagues for risks and benefits. Someone who has McDonald's on the way to her scheduled repeat cesarean section should not get surgery that day, right? And somebody who has been in labor for 12 hours with ruptured membranes who has failure to progress who drink eight ounces of sprite a half an hour ago are a different kind of NPO than the patient I described before. There is really no one-size-fits-all it has to
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