In many centres, anaesthesia now incorporates perioperative medicine. Preeclampsia is a
perioperative medical challenge requiring a multi-disciplinary team. New definitions stress …

Pregnancy induced hypertension is a hypertensive disorder, which occurs in 5% to 7% of all
pregnancies. These parturients present to the labour and delivery unit ranging from …

Study objective Adjuvant dexmedetomidine can be used to reduce the required
concentration of ropivacaine for labor epidural analgesia. However, the potency of …

Lowering the dose of the local anesthesia significantly reduces the risks of spinal anesthesia-
induced hypotension in an elective cesarean delivery. Determination of the mean effective …

Background Neuraxial protocols for cesarean delivery differ among institutions, with various
means of assessing the block prior to incision and managing breakthrough intra-operative …

Background: Spinal anesthesia was considered as a reasonable anesthetic option in severe
preeclampsia when cesarean delivery is indicated, and there is no indwelling epidural …

Background: Studies have reported that prophylactic continuous infusion of phenylephrine
during spinal anesthesia for cesarean section can decrease the spread of local anesthetics …

Background: Phenylephrine infusion to prevent spinal-induced hypotension can attenuate
cephalic spread of intrathecal bupivacaine. Therefore, we suspected the intrathecal dose …

Background It was reported that epidural volume extension could decrease the ED50 of
intrathecal plain bupivacaine. In this study, we investigated the ED50 of intrathecal …