Mode of Anesthesia During Cesarean Section and Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality: A Cohort Study
Ala”a Alhowary, Omar Altal, Wasim Khasawneh, Saif Aldin Naif Rawabdeh, Rania Al-Bataineh, Anas Alrusan, Tareq Khaldoon Bashaireh, Lana Haddad, Rola Madain, Ahmed H Al Sharie · 2026
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Ala'a Alhowary and colleagues report a 2026 study of anesthesia type during cesarean birth and newborn outcomes. Mothers get either general anesthesia, fully asleep, or spinal anesthesia, numbed from the waist down. The team reviewed babies admitted to intensive care after cesarean delivery from 2017 to 2021 at their center, 997 babies in all.
Of these, 628 mothers had spinal and the rest general anesthesia. Babies in the spinal group had better alertness scores at birth and less breathing distress, brain bleeding, and low platelet counts. Death and birth depression were more common in the general group. One breathing problem, fast breathing of the newborn, ran the other way. The authors caution that general anesthesia is used more in emergencies and sicker mothers, which skews the comparison.
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| CREATOR | Ala”a Alhowary, Omar Altal, Wasim Khasawneh, Saif Aldin Naif Rawabdeh, Rania Al-Bataineh, Anas Alrusan, Tareq Khaldoon Bashaireh, Lana Haddad, Rola Madain, Ahmed H Al Sharie |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52405 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |