b/During cesarean section, the initial presentation of AFE involves impaired oxygenation with no anesthetic causes and a sudden decrease in blood pressure dispro-portional to the intraoperative blood loss [30,32]; profuse intraoperative hemorrhage with or without uterine atony has also been noted [26,30-33]; intraoperative AFE with cardiac arrest and severe coagulopathy has been also described [16,26];