Monitoring of adverse outcomes at CS / NOAD

Monitoring via NOAD (National Obstetric Anaesthesia Database)
of adverse anaesthetic outcomes at caesarean section using spinal or CSE anaesthesia

We believe that it is important to collect data on adverse clinical outcomes before and after the introduction of non-Luer spinal equipment to monitor for a possible increase resulting from the change. These outcomes are general anaesthetic (GA) conversion, spinal anaesthesia failure and pain during surgery.

        Level 2 – summary data on GA conversion
        Level 3 – same, broken down into conversion related/not related to technical problems with equipment 
       

After the changeover, data will be collected until there is stability in the clinical situation i.e. hospitals are using a preferred equipment type and anaesthetists are familiar with the equipment.

Units collecting data:

The following have returned data:

Data summary:   View

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