RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Perioperative management of pregnant women undergoing nonobstetric surgery
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 27
OP 34
DO 10.3949/ccjm.88a.18111
VO 88
IS 1
A1 Auron, Moises
A1 Duran Castillo, Marina Y.
A1 Garcia, Omar Felipe Duenas
YR 2021
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/88/1/27.abstract
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.