General anesthesia for caesarean section.

Abstract

For most anaesthesiologists, the clinical experience with general anaesthesia for caesarean section is very low. General anaesthesia is mostly performed for emergency grade 1 caesarean section and due to a lack of time to apply a neuraxial anaesthesia technique. Unfortunately, the majority of anaesthesiologists rely on historical and partly outdated approaches in this stressful situation. We propose an evidence-based approach to general anaesthesia for caesarean section.