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General Anaesthesia for Caesarean Delivery

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General anaesthesia is often used for emergency caesarean delivery when time constraints preclude the use of neuraxial anaesthesia. 

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  1. John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

    Atif Chaudhary & Robin Russell

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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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Chaudhary, A., Russell, R. (2022). General 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_9

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