Spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery in severely preeclamptic women: don't throw out the baby with the bathwater!

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, The Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana and the Department of Anesthesiology, the University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.

Editorial

Alan C Santos et al. Anesth Analg. 2005 Sep.

. 2005 Sep;101(3):859-861.

doi: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000175218.75396.82.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, The Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana and the Department of Anesthesiology, the University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.

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Comment on

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