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Pregnancy-induced physiological and anatomical changes alter the frequency of common and severe obstetric anesthesia complications.
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This narrative review discusses common and severe complications in obstetric anesthesia, highlighting how pregnancy-related physiological changes affect their frequency.
'Obstetric anaesthesia is a litigious area of medical practice - patient expectations are high, and many of the interventions undertaken by anaesthetists are performed urgently or emergently, frequently out of hours. The complications that occur during obstetric practice are not unique to this area of anaesthesia, but some of the physiological and anatomical changes that take place during pregnancy can affect the frequency with which these happen. In this narrative review, we hope to cover a few of the more common complications in obstetric anaesthesia, as well as some of the more severe, yet less frequently occurring problems.
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Maronge et al. (2018) conducted a review in Complications in obstetric anaesthesia. This narrative review discusses common and severe complications in obstetric anesthesia, noting that physiological and anatomical changes during pregnancy can affect their frequency.
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