Relevant recent publications | |
OAA webcast (in last 4 years) | Best practice 1 - Failed epidural top-up for Category 2 CS - what now? Chair: Dr Sarah Armstrong Obstetric Anaesthesia Annual Scientific Meeting Thursday 10th June - Friday 11th June 2021 (Not yet available on the webcast platform. Should be accessible in 6 months approx. December 2021) Category 1 CS – topping up the epidural, what and where? Dr Kailash Bhatia Obstetric Anaesthesia Update Webinar Saturday 3rd October 2020 (password: contact the Secretariat) Debate: This house believes that in all Category 2 caesarean sections a labour epidural should be removed and a spinal anaesthetic used instead Dr Richard Stacey and Dr Matt Turner Cases & Clinical Challenges in Obstetric Anaesthesia Wednesday 7th March 2018 (password: contact the Secretariat) Clinical case: ‘Stop before you top-up’ Dr Anoop Surendran Cases & Clinical Challenges in Obstetric Anaesthesia Wednesday 7th March 2018 (password: contact the Secretariat) Topping up the epidural for caesarean section Dr Chris Elton Obstetric Anaesthesia Update Wednesday 4th October 2017 (password: contact the Secretariat) |
OAA posters (in last 4 years) | A One Year Analysis of Labour Epidural Top-up’s and Failure Rates for Operative Intervention on Delivery Suite J Bennett and V Jain Obstetric Anaesthesia Annual Scientific Meeting Thursday 10th - Friday 11th June 2021 Epidural Top-up For Cesarean Section - Can We Do Better? A Mahrous A Mohamed, V Gopinathan, I Bishton Obstetric Anaesthesia Annual Meeting Thursday 14th - Friday 15th May 2020 Failed Epidural Top-Up for Caesarean Section A Fox, A Kapoor Obstetric Anaesthesia Annual Meeting Thursday 23rd - Friday 24th May 2019 Double back: a quality improvement project for epidural top-up for theatre Juliana Sisk, K Harper, K Litchfield Obstetric Anaesthesia Annual Meeting Thursday 24th - Friday 25th May 2018 How do you do yours? A survey of epidural top-up practices for operative delivery David MacKay, J Sisk, K Harper, K Litchfield, R Agaram Obstetric Anaesthesia Annual Meeting Thursday 24th - Friday 25th May 2018 A prospective audit of anaesthetic technique for caesarean section in patients with labour epidurals in-situ Aideen Callaghan, D McAtamney Obstetric Anaesthesia Annual Meeting Thursday 24th - Friday 25th May 2018 |
MBRRACE-UK | Saving Lives Improving Mothers Care report 2014 |
National guidelines | NICE guidelines 1.4.12 Carry out induction of anaesthesia, including regional anaesthesia, for caesarean birth in theatre. [2004, amended 2021] |
Clinical Guidelines | Local Trust Guidelines from OAA |
Audit / Qu suggestions | 7Obstetric practice 7.6 Caesarean section anaesthesia: technique and failure rate. Page 254. |
FRCA questions | No specific questions regarding epidural top up for LSCS. |
Simulation suggestion | |