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Anesthetic management in pregnant stroke patients requires balancing maternal physiology, fetal safety, and surgical timing.
Anesthetic management of pregnant women with stroke requires careful consideration of maternal and fetal factors, surgical timing, and multidisciplinary cooperation.
Case reports on anesthetic sequencing in pregnant hemorrhagic stroke; leaves open optimal cesarean-neurosurgery timing.
Stroke during pregnancy is rare, but after occurring, most patients develop serious neurological conditions. Hemorrhagic stroke, including intracerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage, often requires emergency surgical intervention. In addition to significant maternal physiological changes, the potential for fetal harm should be considered during anesthetic management of these patients. Whether cesarean section or neurosurgical intervention should be prioritized or performed simultaneously in pregnant women with stroke is an important issue. Whether the patients receive general or spinal and epidural anesthesia is another clinically significant issue. Finally neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, and obstetricians should cooperate to manage pregnant women with stroke.
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Yoshitani et al. (2013) conducted a review in Stroke during pregnancy. Anesthetic management was evaluated. Anesthetic management of pregnant women with stroke requires careful consideration of maternal physiological changes, fetal safety, and the timing of neurosurgical and obstetric interventions.
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