Fetal surgery and anaesthetic implications

Autor:	Griselda Cooper, Mark Kilby, Ritu Gupta
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Fetus Obstetrics Minimal access business.industry Fetal surgery Open surgery medicine.medical_treatment Preterm labour medicine.disease Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine In utero Human fetal medicine Intensive care medicine business Premature rupture of membranes
Zdroj:	Continuing Education in Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain. 8:71-75
ISSN:	1743-1816
DOI:	10.1093/bjaceaccp/mkn004
Popis:	Surgery to the fetus while it is still in utero is used to treat an increasing number of lethal and non-lethal conditions. The problems of preterm labour and premature rupture of membranes associated with open surgery have led to the development of minimal access surgical techniques. Although fetal surgery is a new and fast moving frontier of medicine, it is not one that all obstetric anaesthetists will encounter. The first successful human fetal operation was performed in 1983, but it is still only carried out in a limited number of specialist tertiary centres. The broad challenges presented to the anaesthetist are
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