Volume 65 Number 4 September 1998	back to contents

Anesthesia for Nonobstetric Surgery During Pregnancy Yaakov Beilin

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ABSTRACT
Approximately 50,000 pregnant women undergo nonobstetric surgery each year in the United States. Administering anesthesia during such surgery is one of the only situations in which anesthesia impacts on more than one individual (mother and fetus) at the same time. Providing a safe anesthetic to the pregnant woman requires an understanding of the physiologic changes of pregnancy and the impact of anesthesia and surgery on the developing fetus. The following review will consider the risks to the mother and to the fetus during nonobstetric surgery.

KEY WORDS
anesthesia, morbidity, obstetrics, pregnancy, surgery

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