Local anesthetic toxicity during pregnancy and labour
The author overviews and discusses the problem of using fat emulsion as an antidote for local anesthetic toxicity, potentially life-threatening complication of regional anesthesia. The local anesthetic toxicity during pregnancy is still a serious problem and applying a new measure of treatment using fat emulsion should be beneficial both for patients and for anesthetist. However there are many questions unanswered due to substantial difference in standpoints to this problem, poor evidence base as well as absence of protocol for applying the fat emulsion during resuscitation.