Preventing Hypotension in Parturients With an Elevated Body Mass Index (BMI)

Exclusion Criteria

• •Height \< 5'0"
• •Antiemetic drug use in the 24 hours prior to CD
• •Allergy to phenylephrine, or any other standardized medication
• •Hypertensive disease of pregnancy (i.e. mild \& severe preeclampsia)
• •Chronic hypertension receiving antihypertensive treatment
• •Severe Cardiac disease in pregnancy with marked functional limitations
• •Patients on Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors or Tricyclic Antidepressants
• •Subject enrollment in another study involving a study medication within 30 days of CD
• •Any other physical or psychiatric condition which may impair their ability to cooperate with study data collection