Women from ethnic minority backgrounds in the UK have different patterns of anaesthesia given during childbirth than do White women, according to a new study based on routinely collected national ...

Obstetric anaesthesia for cesarean delivery represents a critical interface between maternal safety and neonatal outcomes. Over recent decades, the shift towards neuraxial techniques such as spinal, ...

Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles has received the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s first approval for an obstetric anesthesiology fellowship program. The year-long fellowship provides ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received the Center of Excellence designation from the Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology. The SOAP Center of Excellence designation ...

New research published in Anaesthesia (a journal of the Association of Anaesthetists) shows that black pregnant women in the UK are much more likely than white women to be given general anesthesia ...

THE relief of pain during childbirth has been since time immemorial a subject of discussion and controversy. At first the differences of opinion were based on biblical interpretations. Snow's use of ...

NEARLY one in four cardiac arrests in pregnancy are associated with complications of obstetric anaesthesia, according to a new study by a leading Bradford consultant. BJOG: An International Journal of ...

ANESTHESIA for obstetrics is well over a century old, but a review of methods used reveals few innovations in the past fifty years. Nevertheless, progress has been made through increased knowledge of ...