Case report: anesthesia management for emergency cesarean section in a patient with dwarfism

BACKGROUND: Dwarfism is characterized by short stature. Pregnancy in women with dwarfism is uncommon and cesarean section is generally indicated for delivery. Patients with dwarfism are high-risk population for both general and regional anesthesia, let alone in an emergency surgery. CASE PRESENTATIO...

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Autores principales: Li, Xiaoxi, Duan, Hongjun, Zuo, Mingzhang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25928113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-015-0048-2
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Duan, Hongjun
Zuo, Mingzhang
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description BACKGROUND: Dwarfism is characterized by short stature. Pregnancy in women with dwarfism is uncommon and cesarean section is generally indicated for delivery. Patients with dwarfism are high-risk population for both general and regional anesthesia, let alone in an emergency surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: In this case report we present a 27-year-old Chinese puerpera with dwarfism who underwent emergency cesarean section under combined spinal and epidural anesthesia. CONCLUSION: It is an original case report, which provides instructive significance for anesthesia management especially combined spinal and epidural anesthesia in this rare condition. There was only one former article that reported a puerpera who underwent combined spinal and epidural anesthesia for a selective cesarean section.
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spelling pubmed-44299312015-05-14 Case report: anesthesia management for emergency cesarean section in a patient with dwarfism Li, Xiaoxi Duan, Hongjun Zuo, Mingzhang BMC Anesthesiol Case Report BACKGROUND: Dwarfism is characterized by short stature. Pregnancy in women with dwarfism is uncommon and cesarean section is generally indicated for delivery. Patients with dwarfism are high-risk population for both general and regional anesthesia, let alone in an emergency surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: In this case report we present a 27-year-old Chinese puerpera with dwarfism who underwent emergency cesarean section under combined spinal and epidural anesthesia. CONCLUSION: It is an original case report, which provides instructive significance for anesthesia management especially combined spinal and epidural anesthesia in this rare condition. There was only one former article that reported a puerpera who underwent combined spinal and epidural anesthesia for a selective cesarean section. BioMed Central 2015-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4429931/ /pubmed/25928113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-015-0048-2 Text en © Li et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_short Case report: anesthesia management for emergency cesarean section in a patient with dwarfism
title_sort case report: anesthesia management for emergency cesarean section in a patient with dwarfism
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25928113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-015-0048-2
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