INTRODUCTION Motherhood is the ultimate joy in a woman's life. Every woman craves for her own child. However, more than half a million
1 women die each year from pregnancy related causes across the globe. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals has placed maternal
health as a basic human right, one that is integral to the core of the ght against poverty and inequality. The high incidence of preeclampsia and its
complications makes its prevention and effective management important.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To study the effect of anaesthetic technique in the foetomaternal outcome in severe preeclamptic patients undergoing
caesarean section and determining any difference in the maternal and perinatal morbidity/mortality amongst those receiving either general or
regional anaesthesia.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Study Area: Eden Hospital, Critical Care Unit (CCU), Special Neonatal Care Unit (SNCU), and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Medical
College & Hospital, Kolkata.
Study Population: Mothers and babies of severe preeclamptic patient with 34 or more gestational weeks admitted in Eden Hospital, Medical
College & Hospital, Kolkata undergoing caesarean section formed our study cohort.
Study Period: 18 months (from February 2012 till June 2013).
RESULTS AND OBSERVATIONS The patients of severe preeclampsia were in the age group 18 to 30 years (93 %). Only 1.2 % were aged more
than 40years. 5.8 % of patients were between the ages of 30 to 40 years. The age patterns were similar in both the groups receiving either spinal or
general anaesthesia.
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION Severe preeclampsia mothers receiving general anaesthesia and their babies required more critical care
support. Maternal as well as neonatal mortality was signicantly higher with general anaesthesia. Spinal anaesthesia is safer alternative to general
anaesthesia in severe preeclampsia with less post operative morbidity and mortality
Corrected Scoliosis, Cholinesterase Deficiency, and Cesarean Section: A Case Report
