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Episode 53: Analgesia for C-section with Mike Hofkamp

Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast

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Using a Labor Epidural for a C-Section Is There a Risk of Failure?

There are three things that determined whether or not activation of the labor epidural for c-section would succeed or fail. The first one was number of clinician boluses so if you've got an epidural that's requiring constant attention from the clinician where the answer provider is going there all the time redosing the epidural that is a predictor of failure another and another risk factor is the urgency of c-sary and section. Non obstetric anesthesiologist providing care may be worse at placing and managing your actual aesthetics than people who are doing primarily obstetric anesthesia.

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