Anesthesia for fetoscopic intervention

Abstract

This is the first case report on anesthesia for fetoscopy performed in Saudi Arabia. Epidural anesthesia was given to the mother in her late second trimester for the fetoscopic intervention. The anesthesia related issues such as physiological and anatomical changes in pregnancy, tocolytic medications and their interactions with anesthesia, anesthetizing/sedating the primary patient are discussed.

Keywords

• Epidural
• fetoscopic endoluminal tracheal occlusion
• fetoscopy