Anesthesia Results
Table 9 refers to anesthesia data overall and by color code
used. 533 (66.7%) patients had epidural analgesia before the cesarean
section. There was no significant difference in the number of
conversions to general anesthesia based on the color code used. Lack of
analgesia was the main reason for conversion to general anesthesia (61
patients, i.e. 85.9%). Four patients received general anesthesia due to
hemodynamic instability during cesarean section (occurrence of a
vascular injury). Four patients developed a complication of epidural
anesthesia requiring general anesthesia. Two patients underwent general
anesthesia after failure of épidural anesthesia.