WHAT ARE QR (Quick Response) CODES?
If you have a smartphone, you can use these black and white codes to gain direct access to relevant pages on a website from printed material.

HOW ARE THEY USED?
They are really easy to use - simply download a free QR code reader from your app store (there are lots to choose from) open it up on your smartphone, then scan the QR code into your phone and it will automatically open a particular web page.

Try the sample QR code on the left.  A different QR code appears on the back of October's IJOA.  By scanning these QR codes, you will be directed to different website pages. 

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

 NPSA - view updates on safer spinal needles

including the Response to the Joint Statement

OAA GUIDELINE Initiative:  

Call for examples on following topics:

• Anaesthetic management and provision of analgesia in Intrauterine fetal demise 
• Emergency drug preparation 
• Anaesthetic management - multiple pregnancy
  

Please send examples to Hilary Swales by 14th November.

Non-members are invited to view two groups of Guideline examples: 

              Failed intubation 
              MEOWS

Members - Log on to the members' area to view all examples:

..... Anaesthetic charts, Analgesia post LSCS, Antacid prophylaxis, Cell salvage CPR in pregnancy,
Dural puncture, Inadequate regional block, Intrauterine resuscitation, Postdural puncture headache, Pre-eclampsia / eclampsia, Epidural haematoma, Failed intubation, GA for Caesarean section, HDU - transfer & discharge, High BMI ,High regional block, Hypotension with Regional Analgesia, Local anaesthetic toxicity, MEOWS, Oral intake in labour, Regional analgesia and coagulation, Referral to anaesthetists, Regional analgesia, Remifentanil, TAP blocks .....