Analgesia and Anaesthesia Management of Labour and Caesarean Delivery for a Parturient with Paramyotonia Congenita

Nazuha Mohd Najid; Thohiroh Abdul Razak; Dudu Berrin Günaydın

doi:10.5152/TJAR.2019.69094

Analgesia and Anaesthesia Management of Labour and Caesarean Delivery for a Parturient with Paramyotonia Congenita

Turk J Anaesthesiol Reanim. 2019 Aug;47(4):345-347. doi: 10.5152/TJAR.2019.69094. Epub 2019 Mar 12.

Authors

Nazuha Mohd Najid¹, Thohiroh Abdul Razak¹, Dudu Berrin Günaydın²

Affiliations

¹ Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Department, Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
² Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.

Abstract

Anaesthetic management in paramyotonia congenita (PC) or 'paradoxical myotonia' poses perioperative challenges to the anaesthesiologists both in obstetric and non-obstetric surgical patients. There are only a few case reports on the anaesthesia management particularly in the obstetric population. Therefore, we aimed to present the management of analgesia of labour and emergency caesarean delivery for a 26-year-old parturient with PC.

Keywords: Caesarean delivery; labour analgesia; myotonia; paramyotonia congenita; spinal anaesthesia.

Publication types

Case Reports