RT Book, Section
A1 Beilin, Yaakov
A2 Santos, Alan C.
A2 Epstein, Jonathan N.
A2 Chaudhuri, Kallol
SR Print(0)
ID 1108523119
T1 Anesthesia for Surgery During Pregnancy
T2 Obstetric Anesthesia
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071786133
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1108523119
RD 2024/04/18
AB The  incidence  of  surgery  during  pregnancy  is  between  0.3%  and  2.0%.1,2  There  are  approximately  4,000,000  deliveries  per  year  in  the  United  States;  this  translates  to  approximately  80,000  anesthetics  per  year  administered  to  pregnant  women  for  intercurrent  surgical  procedures.  In  actuality,  this  may  be  an  underestimate  due  to  surgery  performed  prior  to  clinical  recognition  of  the  pregnancy.  Surgery  may  be  required  at  any  time  during  pregnancy,  and  appendectomy  is  the  most  frequently  performed  nonobstetric  operation.3