SURVEY OF OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA IN REPUBLIC OF SOUTH-AFRICA AND SOUTH-WEST-AFRICA SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL BULEY, R. J., BROCKUTNE, J. G., HOULTON, P. J., Downing, J. W. 1978; 54 (12): 486-489

Abstract

In this report we analyse the results of a questionaire sent to 341 hospitals throughout the Republic and South West Africa, asking for details of their caesarean section rate and obstetric anesthetic techniques used. Non-specialist practitioners provided 90% of anaesthetic services in the 131 (38,4%) hospitals from which replies were received. General anaesthesia was used in preference to regional anaesthesia in 90% of these hospitals. Of the institutions surveyed, 24% used neither stomach emptying nor antacid therapy pre-operatively. These and other results pertaining to their choice of anaesthetic agents and techniques are presented and discussed.

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