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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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COVID-19: Considerations for obstetric anesthesia and analgesia
Venkata Ganesh, Ridhima Bhatia, Anjan Trikha
Department of Anaesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Critical Care, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Prof. Anjan Trikha
Department of Anaesthesiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi - 110 029
India
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DOI: 10.4103/joacc.JOACC_51_20
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Peripartum services are indispensable notwithstanding the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing safe and quality obstetric anesthesia is quite demanding as most signs and symptoms of COVID-19 are non-specific and overlap with the constitutional signs of pregnancy. Overloaded viral testing facilities, urgency of caesarean delivery, limited resources, capricious evidence-base, and potential exposure risk to healthcare providers further add to the challenge imposed by COVID-19. In this discourse we attempt to provide a summary of the current evidence and recommendations concerning the practice of obstetric anesthesia and analgesia.
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