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Disadvantages

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Possible disadvantages of general anaesthesia in obstetrics include :-

  • fetal depression - due to anaesthetic agents passing the placental barrier - secondary fetal depression due to hypotension or maternal hypoxaemia
  • aspiration (often labour ward patients have full stomachs) - Mendelson's syndrome

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