Assessment of postsurgical recovery after discharge using a pen computer diary

✍ Scribed by A. Begg; G. Drummond; B. Tiplady

• Book ID: 104457067
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 276 KB
• Volume: 58
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2409
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.03406.x

✦ Synopsis

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.