Key result
Review highlights key advances in maternal patient safety, obstetric complications, and peripartum care quality.
Why the study?
A comprehensive review of the 2009 literature was needed to update knowledge on maternal patient safety in obstetric anesthesiology.
This review highlights key 2009 literature on maternal patient safety and complications in obstetric anesthesia.
May support expanded peripartum role for obstetric anesthesiologists; leaves open prospective evaluation of safety outcomes.
Every year, the Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology nominates 1 individual to survey the prior year's literature and to identify the most notable articles for the science and practice of obstetric anesthesiology. This article reviews the 2009 literature, focusing on the theme of maternal patient safety, and advancing the notion of the obstetric anesthesiologist as both a perioperative and a peripartum physician. Three specific topics are reviewed: complications of obstetric anesthesia, general obstetric complications, and quality and safety in peripartum care.
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Jill M. Mhyre (2010) conducted a review in Obstetric anesthesia and maternal patient safety. A review of the 2009 literature on obstetric anesthesia highlights key developments in maternal patient safety, obstetric complications, and quality in peripartum care.
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