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Year : 2014 | Volume
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Anesthesia for fetoscopic intervention
Jamil S Anwari, Zubair Tareen
Department of Anesthesia, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh 11159, Saudi Arabia
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Jamil S Anwari Department of Anesthesia, P.O. Box No.: 7897, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh 11159 Saudi Arabia
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DOI: 10.4103/1658-354X.136646
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This is the first case report on anesthesia for fetoscopy performed in Saudi Arabia. Epidural anesthesia was given to the mother in her late second trimester for the fetoscopic intervention. The anesthesia related issues such as physiological and anatomical changes in pregnancy, tocolytic medications and their interactions with anesthesia, anesthetizing/sedating the primary patient are discussed. |
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