This page contains (links in title):
Clinical pearls and the evidence behind them
BJA education articles
Recent guidelines
Clinical pearls
BJA education articles
Most recent articles
Enhanced recovery for caesarean section BJA ED July 2020
Last 5 years of BJA Ed Articles (A-Z)
- Adult congenital heart disease and pregnancy
- Amniotic fluid embolism
- Changes in maternal physiology
- Difficult intubation in obstetrics
- Epidural analgesia
- Hypertension in pregnancy
- Intrapartum assessment of foetus
- Liver disease in pregnancy
- Urgent call to labour ward
- Sepsis in obstetrics
- Major obstetric haemorrhage
- Nitrous oxide
- Neurological complications after regional anaesthesia
- Neurological disease in pregnancy
- Non obstetric anaesthesia during pregnancy
- Non regional labour analgesia
- Obesity in pregnancy
- Post dural puncture headache
- Post natal neurological problems
- Regional block and DVT prophylaxis
Recent guidelines or key articles
International consensus statement on use of oxytocics in labour 2019
OAA guidelines:
- Obstetric difficult airway 2015
- PDPH 2019
- Neurological monitoring after neuroaxial block 2020
- Critically ill parturient 2018
MBRRACE 2015-2017 Published 2019
Key websites:
- OAA website – Obstetric anaesthetists website – new local guidelines will be coming out but at the moment all their national guidelines are linked above
- MBRRACE website – Confidential enquiry into maternal and baby deaths UK
- UKOSS website – UK national obstetric surveillance for rare complications or unusual conditions in pregnancy
- RCOG guidelines (really good for understanding best practice in obstetrics
- Labour pains website have produced a really useful infographic for discussing risk of spinal/neuraxial blocks/GA in labour
- Labour pains website: Translations into many languages of all their leaflets
- Labour pains website: Caesarean section emergency and elective leaflet
- Labour pains website: Epidural leaflet
- Labour pains website: Post dural puncture headache leaflet
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