Episode 53: Analgesia for C-section with Mike Hofkamp
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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What Are the Goals of Labor Analgesia?
For an urgency section to me urgent means you've got time to weigh your options and I would probably prefer to do a regional technique in that scenario. You have to have some kind of situational awareness to understand what is going on with the patient and the baby because these situations can be very dynamic. In the labor and delivery suite we try to take away sensory pain while retaining as much motor function as possible to push out a baby so we could make a patient completely numb. For like I said for emergent to scissoring sections the goal is to get that baby out as soon as possible and general anesthesia is many times the quickest way to get that accomplished.
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