SvO(2) Monitoring during Spinal Anesthesia and Cesarean Section in a Parturient with Severe Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease 

Abstract

ADVANCES in palliative and corrective cardiovascular surgical procedures have lead to increasing numbers of patients with congenital heart disease in the obstetric population. 1 We describe a parturient with palliated complex congenital heart disease. Our peripartum treatment of this challenging patient included mixed venous oximetry and continuous spinal anesthesia.