Boston—Roughly 40% of women receiving intrathecal opioids for cesarean delivery experience hypercapnia, according to a study presented at the 2016 annual meeting of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology. The researchers said the condition is underdetected in the obstetric population, as per the current guidelines of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA).
“Women with a higher baseline transcutaneous carbon dioxide (TcCO2) may need to be more closely