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Combined Spinal-Epidural Anaesthesia for Caesarean Delivery

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Most caesarean deliveries are performed under neuraxial anaesthesia. In the vast majority of cases this is a Single Shot Spinal (SSS) technique.

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  1. University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Marc Van de Velde

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Women’s Wellness and Research Centre, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

    Roshan Fernando

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Pervez Sultan

  3. Department of Anaesthesia, Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley, UK

    Sioned Phillips

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Van de Velde, M. (2022). Combined Spinal-Epidural Anaesthesia for Caesarean Delivery. In: Fernando, R., Sultan, P., Phillips, S. (eds) Quick Hits in Obstetric Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72487-0_7

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