Severe medical illness complicating cesarean section.

Publication/Presentation Date

12-1-1988

Abstract

The care of the perioperative cesarean birth patient who has serious medical illnesses has changed in the past decade. The increasing sophistication of monitoring has allowed the obstetrician and anesthesiologist better to modify certain physiologic parameters that are important in the care of the patient whose physiology has been altered by surgery or disease. As an increasing segment of the obstetric population becomes older, and with better survival of medical diseases, the profession as a whole will be challenged by these patients. It will become more important that a certain subset of physicians develop the skills necessary to undertake the care of these patients and that the special needs of these patients be recognized.

Volume

15

Issue

4

First Page

697

Last Page

717

ISSN

0889-8545

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

3067176

Department(s)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Document Type

Article

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