Quality of Anaesthetic Information given for Labour
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Citation: Brinkler, R., Edwards, Z., Abid, S., Oliver, C.M., Lo, Q., Stewart, A. and (2019), A survey of antenatal and peripartum provision of information on analgesia and anaesthesia†. Anaesthesia, 74: 1101-1111. https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.14745
QUAIL (Quality of Anaesthetic Information given for Labour) is an anaesthetic trainee-led audit of labour analgesia and anaesthesia information provision to maternity patients across Greater London.
The OAA/AAGBI guidelines from June 2013 state that all women, irrespective of birthing plan, should be given up-to-date, evidence based information on analgesia for labour and anaesthesia for caesarean section. These guidelines recommend that this information is formulated by the obstetric anaesthesia department and is provided to the women during the antenatal period. Feelings of lack of control during labour contribute to a negative birth experience, which has been shown to increase the risk of postnatal depression. As anaesthetists we should be ensuring that the women we attend to on labour ward have been provided with adequate information prior to hospital admission to ensure they have a greater feeling of control over their choices.
The aim of this audit is to determine maternity patient perceptions of the content and quality of information received on anaesthesia/analgesia in labour. This data will be compared against standards set out by the OAA/AAGBI.
The audit will involve a survey of recently delivered mothers across London to elicit what information they received and from where during their preparations for birth and whether they feel this was good enough to prepare them for labour. We plan to trial a BYOD (bring your own device) approach to electronic data collection and transfer.
Update: Data collection took place in November 2017, and ran for two non-consecutive days at each site.
Dr Rebecca Brinkler
Dr Zara Edwards
Dr Sonia Abid
Adi Stewart
Lauren Wilson
Safeena Afzal
Clarissa Cheah
Ella Veglio
Kathryn King
Stephen Barrett
Megan Peake
Konstantinos Miltsios
Abigail Cole
Sonia Brocklesby
Jolyon Cohen
Noman Mahmood
Mayavan Abayalingam
Kate Gardener
Rachel Ariyanayagam
Joshua Cain
Alice Webb
Perumal Tamilselvan
Puvan Suppiah
Edward Rintoul
Srinath Sudunagunta
Harry Thompson
Con Papageorgiou
Emma Forman
Catriona Routley
Lorraine Hamlyn
Laura Matthews
Nadia Masood
Carolyn Chan
Alex Wickham
Zara Edwards
Soo-Ming Lim
Tessa Greenslade
Sarah Wray
Beki Baytug
Rhiannon Wong
Naomi Pritchard
Angela Nicklin
Laurence Sharifi
Lydia Fletcher
Eric Fawcett
Samantha Brayshaw
Lucy Westcott
Suzie Milne
Philippa Casey
Sara Bowman
Adrian Dabrowicz
Vijeta Mahinthan
James Waiting
Heather Story
Rebecca Black
Laura Fulton
Roshan Patel
Mano Doraiswami
Kyron Chambers
Gloria Ashiru
Jenna Hutchinson
Paavan Gorur
Rachel Moores
Rosie Herrmann
Adam Shonfeld
Neel Desai
Rik Hawkins
T Gowripalann
Selvaranee Pathmabaskaran
Andrew Combeer
Jasmina Perinpanayagam
Mark Sapsford
Michael Robson
Sarah Armstrong
Tracey Ellimah
Matt Samuel
Nicci Richards
Jonathan Major
Rachel Chapman
Tom Wedgwood
Will Turner
Clare Donovan
Richard George
Katie Redington
Saeed Zafar
Vanessa Cowie
Barry McHugh
Leigh Kelliher
Katie Wimble
Matt Evans
David Monks
Jenna Kelly
Kate Cheesman
Theanu Kasi Anandan
Navjot Panesar
Nuala Schwartz
Sam Wong
Jibran Qureshi
Vishal Salota
Imran Shareiff
Claudie Sellers
Hagar Aly
Vilma Uzkalniene
Katy Powell
Olivia El Amin
James Hilton