PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Moises Auron
AU  - Marina Y. Duran Castillo
AU  - Omar Felipe Duenas Garcia
TI  - Perioperative management of pregnant women undergoing nonobstetric surgery
AID  - 10.3949/ccjm.88a.18111
DP  - 2021 Jan 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 27--34
VI  - 88
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/88/1/27.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/88/1/27.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2021 Jan 01; 88
AB  - Nonobstetric surgery during pregnancy should be avoided if possible, but when surgery is required, an obstetrician should be part of the perioperative team. In general, preoperative assessment is similar regardless of whether a woman is pregnant, but cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic, and renal changes of pregnancy can increase surgical risk and must be taken into account. Special management considerations include pregnancy-associated laboratory changes, timing of surgery, anesthesia choice, intubation precautions, patient positioning, preoperative blood typing, intraoperative fetal monitoring, and venous thromboembolism prophylaxis.