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OAA members:

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• Last few Workshop places left (Workshop 3)
• Trainee Forum details available
• Titanic exhibition tour included with Welcome Reception
• Book for the Annual Dinner with Bollywood Theme!
• Ensure your poster is also available as an e-poster (DEADLINE EXTENDED to 18 May)
• View all details for Obstetric Anaesthesia 2012 

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

Ugandan Maternal & Newborn HUB
Funded Volunteer Position available
for Anaesthetist for 2012/13
Application deadline 30 April 2012

 NPSA - view updates on safer spinal needles

OAA advice – February 2012:

Read letter from OAA President sent to all members
on 17 February

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).

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?
Download a free QR code reader from your app store, open it up on your smartphone, then scan the QR code and it will automatically open a specific web page.   Try the sample on the left or another on the back of IJOA.

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

OAA GUIDELINE Initiative:  

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 .....