Percentage of Patients with Failed Regional Anaesthesia for Obstetric and Gynaecological Operations

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Percentage of Patients with Failed Regional Anaesthesia for Obstetric and Gynaecological Operations


The Department of Women's Anaesthesia performs about 4000 regional anaesthesia for obstetric and gynaecological operations every year. The percentage of failed regional of failed regional anaesthesia is tracked as a clinical indicator against published benchmark of 3%.

Ref: Russell IF. Techniques of anaesthesia for Caesarean section. In: Colvin JR, ed. Raising the standard: a compendium of audit recipes for continuous quality improvement in anaesthesia. 2nd ed. London: The Royal College of Anaesthetists; 2006.