Original Research Article Objective: Evaluation of anesthetic practices during emergency cesarean sections at the regional hospital of Saint Louis in Senegal. Patients and methods: Prospective, descriptive and analytical study of 4 months... more
Original Research Article Objective: Evaluation of anesthetic practices during emergency cesarean sections at the regional hospital of Saint Louis in Senegal. Patients and methods: Prospective, descriptive and analytical study of 4 months (from February 1st to May 31st, 2019) including all patients who had an emergency caesarean section. The parameters studied were: age of patients, history and condition of patients, number of pregnancy and childbirth, preoperative clinical and paraclinical evaluation data, indication for surgery, types of surgery, anesthesia data, intraoperative incidents and accidents, postoperative complications, fetal and maternal morbidity. The data have been input and analyzed with the software Epi Info version 7.2.3.0. Results: We collected a total of 195 patients. The average age was 27 years (Extremes: 15 45 years). The preoperative evaluation found a score of ASA 1 in 41%, ASA 2 in 31.7%, and ASA 3 in 21% of cases. The initial Glasgow coma scale was 15 in ...
