Anesthesia for Operative Caesarean Section Delivery

- Abbreviations

AAGBI: Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland

ACOG: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

AHA: American Heart Association

ALS: Advanced Life Support

AoA: Association of Anaesthetists

APCHE II: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II)

ASA: American Society of Anesthesiologists.

ASRA: American Society of Regional Anesthesia

BMI: Body mass index

BP: Blood pressure

CPR: Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation

CS: Caesarean Section

CSE: Combined Spinal-Epidural.

CSF: Cerebro-spinal fluid

CTG: Cardiotocography

DAS: Difficult Airway Society

DIC: Disseminated intravascular coagulation

DM: Diabetes Mellitus

EBP: Epidural Blood Patch

ECG: Electrocardiogram

EHC: Egyptian Health Council

ERC: European resuscitation council

ESA: European Society of Anaesthesiology

FBC: Full blood count

FONA: Front of Neck Access

GA: General anaesthesia

GDG: Guidelines Development Group

GPS: Good Practice Statement.

GRADE: Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation

HDP: Hypertensive Disorder in Pregnancy.

HELLP: Hemolysis, Elevated Liver enzymes and Low Platelet count

HTN: hypertension

IV: Intravenous

LA: Local Anesthetic

LAST: Local anaesthetic systemic toxicity

LSCS: Lower segment Caesarean section

LUD: Left uterine displacement

MAP: Mean arterial pressure

MHP: Massive Hemorrhage Protocol

MOEWS: Modified Obstetric Early Warning Score

MTP: Massive Transfusion Protocol

NIBP: Non-invasive blood pressure

NICE: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

NMDA: N-methyl-D-aspartate

NSAID: Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug

NYSORA: New York School of Regional Anesthesia

OAA: Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association

PCA: Patient-controlled Analgesia

PDPH: Post-dural Puncture Headache

RCoA: Royal College of Anaesthetists

RCOG: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

RCT: Randomized Controlled Trials.

SAD: Supraglottic airway device

SOAP: Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology

TAP: Transversus Abdominis Plane

UK: United kingdom

VTE: venous thromboembolism

WFSA: World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists

WHO: World Health Organization