Anaesthesia for Caesarean section: a survey in a UK region from 1992 to 2002
Summary Data are presented for anaesthesia for Caesarean section (CS) in the South‐west Thames region of the UK. The CS rate rose from 12.7% in 1987 to 24.2% in 2002. The rate of increase shows no sign of slowing. The rate of regional anaesthesia (RA) for elective CS rose from 69.4% in 1992 to 94.9%...
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Published in | Anaesthesia Vol. 58; no. 11; pp. 1114 - 1118 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Oxford, UK
Blackwell Science Ltd
01.11.2003
Blackwell |
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Summary: | Summary Data are presented for anaesthesia for Caesarean section (CS) in the South‐west Thames region of the UK. The CS rate rose from 12.7% in 1987 to 24.2% in 2002. The rate of increase shows no sign of slowing. The rate of regional anaesthesia (RA) for elective CS rose from 69.4% in 1992 to 94.9% in 2002, when spinal anaesthesia was used for 86.6% of cases. This may limit the opportunities to teach other anaesthetic techniques. The rate of RA for emergency CS rose from 49.3% in 1992 to 86.7% in 2002. There is an unacceptable rate of failure of RA for both elective and emergency CS, 1.3% of RAs for elective CS and 4.9% of RAs for emergency CS were converted to general anaesthesia. |
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Bibliography: | Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association, Cardiff, June 2003. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0003-2409 1365-2044 |
DOI: | 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.03446.x |