During maintenance of a general inhaled anaesthetic for urgent non-obstetric surgery, one would expect this difference in the pregnant patient versus a non-pregnant patient
Correct Answer: Faster induction of anaesthesia
Description: In pregnancy, FRC of lungs is decreased and minute ventilation is increased, which results in increase in rate of change of alveolar concentration of inhaled anaesthetic. This increases speed of induction.
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