Three types of medications are commonly used in a cesarean section or surgical delivery: anesthetics, analgesics, and intravenous saline. Additionally, antibiotics may be used in some cases. Apart from this, some common medicines are also used.
When pharmacologists, several senior OGSB members and anesthetists were consulted they said that they were speculating that the recent maternal deaths might have been caused by a defect in the anesthetics, the analgesics or the intravenous saline – any one of these three.
Professor MD Saidur Rahman, a pharmacologist and chairman of the department of pharmacology at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, told Prothom Alo, “Samples of all the medicines, including anaesthetics, analgesics and intravenous saline that have been used, have to be collected from the market and at least tested. need to.” Three different laboratories. “Testing them in any one laboratory will not yield satisfactory results.”
There is a crisis of anesthetists in the country. And not every hospital or clinic has skilled anesthetists. Some people have also suggested looking into the matter to see if the anesthetist made any mistakes. Because several deaths have reportedly occurred in the last two months due to anesthetist mistakes.
Experts say that who among the concerned played what role in the surgery and to what extent they played it, this should be a part of the investigation.