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Peripheral Nerve Lesions After Neuraxial Anesthesia

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Postpartum peripheral neuropathy refers to sensory and/or motor impairment during the postpartum period.

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  1. King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Adel Alqarni

  2. University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

    Christian Loubert

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Women’s Wellness and Research Centre, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

    Roshan Fernando

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Pervez Sultan

  3. Department of Anaesthesia, Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley, UK

    Sioned Phillips

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Alqarni, A., Loubert, C. (2022). Peripheral Nerve Lesions After Neuraxial Anesthesia. In: Fernando, R., Sultan, P., Phillips, S. (eds) Quick Hits in Obstetric Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72487-0_58

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