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Welcome

The Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association (OAA) was formed in 1969 to promote the highest standards of anaesthetic practice in the care of mother and baby and has an international membership of over 2450.

The OAA provides both education and training for anaesthetists and other practitioners in the UK and overseas and a resource for women seeking information about pain relief in labour and anaesthesia for Caesarean section. 

For those wishing to join please see Membership pages for more details.    

 

  

For Smartphones and Tablets

Information for mothers - with translations in up to 37 languages

 

Please click here to visit the new OAA Portal 

  

 

 

 

Voting is now open for the OAA Committee Elections!

 

All eligible OAA members should click on the vote button to cast their vote.

 

You will need to log into the OAA portal to gain access to the members area of the website to cast your vote.

 

Neuraxial and regional anaesthesia devices with non-Luer connectors

The updated statement is now available

   

OAA Obstetric Anaesthesia 2013

Thursday 23 & Friday 24 May 2013

Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth

 

View full details and register

 

View all details for oral and ePosters including list of those selected for presentation on Thursday afternoon (15.45 - 17.00)

ACCEA 2013

The OAA has specialist society status with the Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards (ACCEA), and is able to support a limited number of members in their quest for National Awards.

Find further information from the OAA President under ACCEA after logging into the members' area.

Call for obstetric intensivists!    

MBRRACE-UK is the new body responsible for running the confidential enquiry into maternal deaths, which will be restarting this year after a short hiatus. The OAA is acting on behalf of the Royal College to recruit assessors to work with MBRRACE, and we are currently looking for active clinical practitioners who are both obstetric anaesthetists and intensivists, in order to assess deaths involving critical care. If interested, please contact Paul Howell in the first instance for more information.

 

 


NPSA - view updates on safer spinal needles

OAA / SALG
           - spinal needle evaluation results and safety critical incidents
        

                                                                                       

OAA Guidelines Initiative

All guidelines are now displayed on the main OAA Site and no longer just in the members area.

Request for new and updated versions of Guidelines

New and updated versions of the following guidelines are requested.  Please submit to Hilary Swales by 15th April:

 

a.  Antacid prophylaxis

b.  Epidural Haematoma

c.  HDU - transfer and discharge

d.  High BMI

e.  High regional block

f.  Referral to anaesthetists

g.  Remifentanil

 

 

Launch of NAP5 project by RCoA and AAGBI (May 2012)

View announcement and see further details on NAP pages of the  National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA) and Health Services Research Centre (HSRC) website

NICE Evidence Update: The latest Evidence Update ‘Pregnancy and complex social factors: Evidence Update January 2012’ focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE clinical guideline 110 ‘A model for service provision for pregnant women with complex social factors’ (2010)

 

New Report
Providing equity of Critical and maternity care for the critically ill pregnant or recently pregnant woman

View letter from RCoA and RCOG Presidents

View Report
(the version on this site includes an amendment made on 16.8.11 to page 14)

Try the new
Information for Mothers
'app'
- translations
in up to 35 languages

Maternal Deaths:
Read report of Review Panel
(July 2011) 

Saving Mothers' Lives 2006 - 2008
OAA members and others are given free access to the Report (published March 2011) online:
- Full Report
- Executive Summary
- Midwifery Summary

 

 

Follow OAAinfo on Twitter          

     

The OAA has joined twitter and facebook!  Sign up and follow the OAA ('OAAinfo') to get alerts when important documents are available as well as updates on meetings and courses etc.    For any problems accessing twitter (apparently new members are not easy to find) just go to www.twitter.com/OAAinfo

  

 

 

- view the International Page with links to Obstetric Anaesthesia activities around the world
                                                                                         

 

   

                           

 

If you have any comments, criticisms or suggestions about this site,
please e-mail Tim Meek

 

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