Preoperative Care For Cesarean Section

Pre operative checklist completed and signed midwife and or staff hand over to operating room nurse is completed surgical safety checklist sign in completed vi.

Preoperative care for cesarean section. This enhanced recovery after surgery eras guideline for perioperative care in cesarean delivery will provide best practice evidenced based recommendations for preoperative intraoperative and postoperative phases with primarily a maternal focus. Through this you will receive necessary fluids and medications as needed. If spinal anesthesia was used the woman s legs are fully.

The following are also included in preoperative management. You will receive a phone call from one of the birth center nurses the night before your surgery to confirm the time and give you final instructions. After surgery the woman would be transferred by stretcher to the postanesthesia care unit.

Have an intravenous line iv started in your arm or hand. Preoperative instructions for cesarean birth. The focused pathway process for scheduled and u.

Date cesarean sections are generally done during the day between 7 30am 3 00pm. The or health care assistant will assist the support person and show them where to change into or scrubs or if the woman is having a general anaesthetic where to sit and wait. Placement of an intravenous iv line infusion of iv fluids eg lactated ringer solution or saline with 5 dextrose placement of a foley catheter to drain the bladder and to monitor urine output placement of an external fetal monitor.

Your surgery has been scheduled for. Postpartal care the postpartal care period of a woman who has undergone emergent cesarean birth is divided into two. The enhanced recovery after surgery eras committee reviewed available data to provide evidenced based guidance on perioperative care for cesarean delivery with a maternal focus.