Women from ethnic minority backgrounds in the UK have different patterns of anaesthesia given during childbirth than do White women, according to a new study based on routinely collected national ...

Accidental awareness occurs when a patient is temporarily conscious during a general anaesthetic and can remember things that happened during surgery, perhaps feeling pain or being unable to move.

The Williamstown Hospital in Melbourne has been forced to refer pregnant women to other hospitals to give birth because of a lack of obstetric anaesthetists. The hospital has been unable to recruit ...

A team of anaesthesiologists from Hamad Medical Corporation’s Women’s Wellness and Research Centre (WWRC) have published a textbook entitled, “Quick Hits in Obstetric Anaesthesia”. The publication ...

Healthy mothers are dying in level 1 and 2 hospitals at the hands of doctors so unskilled in administering obstetric anaesthesia that they should never have been in a position to attempt it in the ...