Anaesthesia

Obstetric anaesthesia
Many anaesthesiologists supply an obstetric epidural service. This may be simply for controlling the pain of labour, or may be for a Caesarean Section.

Spinal anaesthesia risks
Lack of knowledge and experience are contributing to an inexcusable number of maternal deaths from spinal anaesthesia in South Africa.

South Africa fails to save mothers
Only one of the 11 recommendations by the Saving Mothers reports has been implemented over the past 11 years.

Anaesthesia shock: fatal decisions
Despite numerous calls for action about the unacceptably high rate of obstetric anaesthesia-related deaths, mothers are still dying at the hands of inadequately trained doctors.

Maternal deaths anaesthesia related
The 2005 Saving Mothers study reveal shocking findings.