Clinical Study

Fetomaternal Outcome in Severe Preeclamptic Women Undergoing Emergency Cesarean Section under Either General Or Spinal Anesthesia

Table 4

Intraoperative hemodynamic, operative, and anesthesia parameters.

Intraoperative parametersGROUP valueSignificance
Spinal anesthesiaGeneral anesthesia 
Mean ± std. deviationMean ± std. deviation

Intraoperative systolic BP128.36 ± 12.27133.19 ± 10.160.056Not significant
Intraoperative diastolic BP78.55 ± 10.984.52 ± 9.70.009Significant
Intraoperative IV RL bottles3.01 ± 0.492.48 ± 0.51<0.001Significant
Vasopressor use76 (52.1%)9 (33.3%)<0.01Significant
Skin incision to delivery (minute)4.58 ± 1.434.22 ± 1.460.239Not significant
Uterine incision to delivery (sec)61.56 ± 17.9855.96 ± 5.930.112Not significant
Duration of surgery (minute)49.54 ± 6.7249.15 ± 7.030.782Not significant
Duration of anesthesia (minute)56.64 ± 14.2159.63 ± 7.20.287Not significant
Oxytocin in unit13.32 ± 2.5113.89 ± 2.120.272Not significant

Student’s unpaired -test and Pearson’s Chi Square test.