Peculiarities of anesthesia for caesarean section in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Women with gestational diabetes mellitus are at high risk of operative delivery. Meanwhile, hyperglycemia affects the metabolism of narcotic analgesics, while increasing their need. Thus, the anesthesiologist is faced with the question of what method of anesthesia to choose for a particular cesarean section.

AIM: The aim of this study was to estimate the features of the perioperative period of cesarean section in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: This prospective, controlled, single-center study enrolled 101 patients who were delivered by planned cesarean sections from April to November 2023. Group 1 included patients with gestational diabetes mellitus on diet therapy (n = 28), group 2 comprised patients with gestational diabetes mellitus on insulin therapy (n = 29), and group 3 (control) included women with a normal pregnancy without carbohydrate metabolism disturbances (n = 44).

RESULTS: The highest initial values of mean arterial pressure were in group 2 and amounted to 91.8 ± 7.0 mmHg. In group 1, the mean arterial pressure was within 89.1 ± 6.4 mmHg, and in group 3, that was 85.9 ± 9.1 mmHg, which was significant (p < 0.05). The sympathetic block developed longer in patients of group 2. In group 1, the sensory block was recorded at the Th_IV–Th_V level after 10.1 minutes and the motor block (Bromage score 3) after 12.2 minutes compared to 7.8 and 8.6 minutes, respectively, in group 2, and 4.5 and 5.1 minutes, respectively, in group 3. In group 2, authors observed the most rapid regression of the block (79.4 minutes after the injection of local anesthetic), which required an earlier start of the transversus abdominis plane block (after 65.3 minutes). The sympathetic block regressed after 86.2 and 138.1 minutes in patients of groups 1 and 3, respectively (p < 0.05), when the transversus abdominis plane block was performed. Thus, immediately after cesarean section, women with gestational diabetes mellitus (especially on insulin therapy) had a higher need for analgesics than those without gestational diabetes mellitus.

CONCLUSIONS: During cesarean section under spinal anesthesia in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus, the rate of development of the sympathetic block is reduced (especially in women who received insulin therapy). At the same time, block regression in these patients occurs much faster, which requires an earlier start of postoperative anesthesia. An increased need for systemic analgesics has been demonstrated during the postoperative period in women with gestational diabetes mellitus, mainly with insulin therapy.

Keywords

gestational diabetes mellitus / caesarean section / anesthesia

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