Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 8, 270-275, Copyright © 1961 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Anesthésie et operation Césarienne

¹ L'Hopital de la Misericorde, Montreal, Ass. Professeur d'Anesthesiologie à l'Université de Montreal

The goal of this communication is to establish the superiority of general anaesthesia over spinal or any other type of anaesthesia for caesarean section, after a series of 1,172 cases extending over a period of nine years.

1. It is safer for both mother and child, and is more acceptable by the patient because of the psychic condition she is in when she has to undergo a caesarean section.

2. It does away with the risk of neurologic complications.

3. It does not produce any fall in the blood pressure nor any vomiting.

4. It gives good relaxation to the surgeon and does not interfere with uterine tonicity after operation.

5. It requires that the anaesthetist has the ability and experience and works with the entire collaboration of the surgeon to achieve perfect "timing."

The results, including both foetal and maternal mortality, are discussed and compare advantageously with published results in Canada and U.S.A.