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Emergency Caesarean Section of a Patient with Eisenmenger's Syndrome: A Tight-Rope Walk

Successful management of a pregnant patient with complex congenital heart disease is a challenge for anesthesiologists, requiring thorough knowledge of the impact of pregnancy on the cardiac lesion. Hearing and speech impaired patients pose a barrier to effective communication between the patient an...

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Autores principales: Gangakhedkar, Gauri R, Chhabria, Rachana D, Gour, Surabhee D, Palani, Yogalakshmi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7034216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31929258
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aca.ACA_175_18
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Chhabria, Rachana D
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Palani, Yogalakshmi
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description Successful management of a pregnant patient with complex congenital heart disease is a challenge for anesthesiologists, requiring thorough knowledge of the impact of pregnancy on the cardiac lesion. Hearing and speech impaired patients pose a barrier to effective communication between the patient and the doctors, thus increasing the anxiety and risk of complications. Here, we present a case of a hearing and speech impaired woman with the rare and dangerous Eisenmenger's syndrome, presenting for an emergency cesarean section (CS).
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spelling pubmed-70342162020-03-09 Emergency Caesarean Section of a Patient with Eisenmenger's Syndrome: A Tight-Rope Walk Gangakhedkar, Gauri R Chhabria, Rachana D Gour, Surabhee D Palani, Yogalakshmi Ann Card Anaesth Case Report Successful management of a pregnant patient with complex congenital heart disease is a challenge for anesthesiologists, requiring thorough knowledge of the impact of pregnancy on the cardiac lesion. Hearing and speech impaired patients pose a barrier to effective communication between the patient and the doctors, thus increasing the anxiety and risk of complications. Here, we present a case of a hearing and speech impaired woman with the rare and dangerous Eisenmenger's syndrome, presenting for an emergency cesarean section (CS). Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7034216/ /pubmed/31929258 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aca.ACA_175_18 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Emergency Caesarean Section of a Patient with Eisenmenger's Syndrome: A Tight-Rope Walk
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title_short Emergency Caesarean Section of a Patient with Eisenmenger's Syndrome: A Tight-Rope Walk
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