A 29-year-old female patient who is 8-months pregnant is havingan emergency appendectomy. She will have to receive generalanesthesia for the procedure.
1. What anatomical changes have taken place in the patient thatmust be taken into account for this case?
2. How might the patient’s laboratory tests be changed by herbeing pregnant?
3. What additional emergency procedure should the CST beprepared to quickly set up and assist the surgeon?
4. What postoperative symptoms should be closely monitored thatmight indicate preterm labor?
5. What physiological occurrence is difficult to recognize inthe pregnant patient and may result in the fetus becoming hypoxic?What device should be used both intraoperatively andpostoperatively to avoid the complication?
