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Why does pregnancy make hypoxia so dangerous? 🤔🫁
• BMR ↑ up to 15%
• O₂ consumption ↑ ~20%
• FRC ↓ ~20% at term
The result: rapid desaturation at induction and during cardiac arrest.
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Cathriona Murphy
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UCC Medicine, class of 2021 • Interested in Anaesthesiology






When should we be concerned about motor block following a spinal anaesthetic? As >50% of patients had a significant motor block at 4h, Shippam et al have extended the trigger time for review to 6h. Instead of 63% of patients, they now review 23%! 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…