Anaesthetic managment and clinical outcomes of parturients with COVID-19: a multicentre, retrospective, propensity score matched cohort study

Yuan Zhang; Rong Chen; Jie Wang; Yuan Gong; Qin Zhou; Hui-hui Cheng; Zhong-yuan Xia; Xiangdong Chen; Qing-tao Meng; Daqing Ma

There were 28(31.5%) cases received elective cesarean delivery, and 61(68.5%) cases underwent emergency cesarean delivery of the COVID-19 parturients. Among of them, 8(9.0%) cases received spinal anaesthesia, 20(22.5%) cases received epidural anaesthesia, 11(12.4%) cases received general anaesthesia induced by intravenous anaesthetic (5.6%) and inhalational anaesthesia (6.7%). In the Control group, 108(62.5%) cases underwent elective cesarean delivery and 63(37.6%) cases received emergency cesarean delivery. Of those, 38(22.0%) cases received spinal anaesthesia, 70(40.5%) cases received epidural anaesthesia, 18(10.4%) cases received general anaesthesia induced by intravenous induction (4.6%) and inhalation induction (5.8%). No significant differences of anaesthetic tecniques were found between two groups. However, the rate of emergency anaesthesia was significantly increased in the COVID-19 parturients (p<0.05) ( Table 3) .