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Isoflurane in Obstetric Anesthesia

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To discuss a potent, volatile inhalation anesthetic for use in obstetrics may rise some questions. Nowadays, the trend is to favor either regional analgesia or natural child-birth. However, for cesarean section and complicated vaginal delivery inhalation anesthesia is frequently preferred even if at present conduction anesthesia is increasingly employed.

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  1. Klinik für Anästhesiologie und operative Intensivmedizin, Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Straße 33, D-4400, Münster, Germany

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Poppers, P.J. (1986). Isoflurane in Obstetric Anesthesia. In: Lawin, P., Van Aken, H., Puchstein, C. (eds) Isoflurane. Anaesthesiology Intensive Care Medicine/Anaesthesiologie und Intensivmedizin, vol 182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71230-2_40

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