Background and Goal of Study: Labour is a painful experience and several analgesia techniques are available. When C-section has to be performed there is no standard anesthesia technique.
Materials and Methods:The objective of this retrospective study was to evaluate the anesthesic techniques more used in cesarean sections in our hospital and in which context it was performed other technique.
Results and Discussion: After obtaining approval from the ethics committee, we collected anesthetic data from all caesarean sections performed between January and December of 2016, in Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu Portugal. During this period, there were a total of 1.961 births, 439 of them by C/S (22,4%). Two hundred and five (46,7%) were performed in emergency and two hundred and thirty four (53,3%) were elective. Regional anesthesia was performed in 371 patients (84,5%) [Epidural anesthesia for 361 patients(82,2%), spinal block for 2 (0,5%), sequential for 5 (1,1%) and combined spinal-epidural anesthesia for 3 patients (0,7%)]. General anesthesia was performed in 68 patients (15,5%), all of them as an emergency.
Conclusion: :In our hospital 22,4% of births are performed by C-section. If not contraindicated, regional anesthetic techniques are the preferred method for C-section delivery in our hospital, once they are associated with lower morbidity (3-4). The main reason to perform a general anesthesia in our hospital is emergency.

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