International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia
Volume 17, Issue 3 , Pages 212-216 , July 2008

Vaginal twin delivery: a survey and review of location, anesthesia coverage and interventions

  • B. Carvalho

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: B. Carvalho, Department of Anesthesiology, H3580, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA, Tel.: +650 861 8607; fax: +650 725 8544.
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  • A. Saxena
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  • A. Butwick
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  • A. Macario

,Accepted 1 April 2007.

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 Dr. Carvalho’s work is supported by a Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women’s Health Research (BIRCWH) grant from the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health (5K12 HD043452).

 Presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP), April 2006, Miami, FL.

PII: S0959-289X(07)00100-8

doi: 10.1016/j.ijoa.2007.04.004

International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia
Volume 17, Issue 3 , Pages 212-216 , July 2008

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