BACKGROUND Use of high-dose inhalational anesthesia during open fetal surgery may induce maternal-fetal hemodynamic instability and fetal myocardial depression. The authors' preliminary human retrospective study demonstrated less fetal bradycardia and left ventricular systolic dysfunction with lower dose desflurane supplemented with propofol and remifentanil IV anesthesia (SIVA). In this animal...

A fetal tachyarrhythmia was discovered at the thirty-second week of gestation of a 22-year old woman. Fetal echocardiography revealed atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular rate, without any other demonstrable cardiac abnormality. In spite of therapeutic maternal blood levels of digoxin, the fetal ventricular rate and cardiac size increased, which prompted us to perform cesarean section at ...

ACR Appropriateness Criteria 1 Assessment of Fetal Well-Being American College of Radiology ACR Appropriateness Criteria Clinical Condition: Assessment of Fetal Well-Being Variant 1: Low-risk pregnancy. Radiologic Procedure Rating Comments RRL* US pregnant uterus biophysical profile 2 O US pregnant uterus modified biophysical profile 2 O US duplex Doppler velocimetry 2 O US echocardiography fet...