TY - JOUR
T1 - Neuraxial Anesthesia in Parturients with Low Platelet Counts
AU - Bernstein, Jeffrey
AU - Hua, Betty
AU - Kahana, Madelyn
AU - Shaparin, Naum
AU - Yu, Simon
AU - Davila-Velazquez, Juan
PY - 2016/5/6
Y1 - 2016/5/6
N2 - The obstetric anesthesiologist must consider the risk of spinal–epidural hematoma in patients with thrombocytopenia when choosing to provide neuraxial anesthesia. There are little data exploring this complication in the parturient. In this single-center retrospective study of 20,244 obstetric patients, the incidence of peripartum thrombocytopenia (platelet count
AB - The obstetric anesthesiologist must consider the risk of spinal–epidural hematoma in patients with thrombocytopenia when choosing to provide neuraxial anesthesia. There are little data exploring this complication in the parturient. In this single-center retrospective study of 20,244 obstetric patients, the incidence of peripartum thrombocytopenia (platelet count
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U2 - 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001312
DO - 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001312
M3 - Article
C2 - 27159067
AN - SCOPUS:84966359442
SN - 0003-2999
JO - Anesthesia and Analgesia
JF - Anesthesia and Analgesia
ER -