Crashing GA Caesarean
April 28, 2019
In this episode I have enlisted Dr Roger Browning (Obstetric Anaesthetist) to discuss the finer points of giving a safe anaesthetic in the scariest scenario in my practice – the crashing GA Caesarean section.
There are many ways to skin a cat and many ways to give a GA for a C-section. Roger takes me through a case and how he approaches this complex and urgent situation.
If you have questions or comments then please let me know in the comments below and I will ask roger to answer them – he is much smarter!
You can hear more about all things to do with perioperative and critical care for Women in his excellent podcast ObsGynae Critical Care
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Is there a good reason why ketamine is not the drug of choice for induction and maintenance of anaesthesia in GA caesars? Particularly in rural locations where the surgeon is a generalist and often has a longer induction to delivery times than a specialist obstetrician it would decrease the degree of depressed respiration one would hypothesise?