Voting is now open for the OAA Committee Elections!

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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

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