Obstetric anesthesiology is a significant component of modern anesthesiology, and a high risk sub-specialty because of its involvement of both mother and newborn. Having a late start, obstetric anesthesiology in mainland China has been developing synchronously with all other anesthesiology sub-specialties. Advances in science and technology and improvement of management skills in recent decades...

The purpose of this project is to develop, implement, and evaluate an educational program improve obstetric nurses’ management the second stage labor.

BACKGROUND In communities with low rates of institutional delivery, little data exist on care-seeking behavior for potentially life-threatening obstetric complications. In this analysis, we sought to describe care-seeking patterns for self-reported complications and near misses in rural Bangladesh and to identify factors associated with care seeking for these conditions. METHODS Utilizing dat...

The availability of labor analgesia is highly variable in the People's Republic of China. There are widespread misconceptions, by both parturients and health care providers, that labor epidural analgesia is harmful to mother and baby. Meanwhile, China has one of the highest cesarean delivery rates in the world, exceeding 50%. The goal of the nongovernmental No Pain Labor & Delivery (NPLD) is to...

BACKGROUND Combined uterine and urinary bladder rupture following prolonged obstructed labor is indeed a momentous uro-obstetric emergency. The urinary bladder involvement is distinctly rare in the absence of factors that predispose the bladder to be adherent to the lower uterine segment and is quite unusual in a primigravida. OBJECTIVE To report a rare case of uterine rupture involving urina...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of non-obstetric surgical procedures on maternal and fetal outcome. METHODS A systematic review of all English language literature. RESULTS Fifty-four papers met the inclusion criteria. The overall number of patients reported was 12,452. Reported maternal death was rare at .006%. The miscarriage rate was 5.8%; however, this number is difficult to interpret ...

Obstetric patients are transported by air quite frequently. We evaluated transport times, obstetric outcomes, air-versus-ground transport costs, and related data on 22 helicopter aeromedical transports of pregnant patients with preterm labor. We found no significant differences between patients who delivered and those who did not when comparing transport time (167.1 +/- 41.9 minutes versus 177....

In the United States obstetric anesthesia has been a major subspecialty of anesthesiology for a long time and is now an integral part of practice of most anesthesiologists1. An obstetric anesthesiologist has become an essential member of the obstetric care team, who closely works with the obstetrician, family practitioner, midwife, neonatologist and Labor and Delivery nurse to ensure the highes...