A review Maternal satisfaction after spinal anesthesia for caesarean section

Abstract:

Background:

Patient satisfaction is an important measure of the quality of health care and is used as an outcome measure in interventional and quality improvement studies.

Objective:

To determine the level of satisfaction in terms of intra-operative pain and postoperative nausea, vomiting and backache among patients receiving spinal anesthesia for caesarean section.

Methods:

Controlled trials that compare spinal anesthesia for caesarean section. Criteria for considering studies for this review, all published randomized. Types of participants were women having spinal for caesarean section.Types of interventions was spinal techniques used to provide anaesthesia for caesarean section. Combined spinal‐epidural techniques are excluded.

Types of outcome measures, the main outcome of interest will be the provision of adequate anaesthesia during surgery.

The difference in time taken for surgery to commence between epidural and spinal patients was determined where possible (when means and standard deviations were provided).

There are fifteen related articles, in which we chose five article that are more related to topic literature review, all these articles are taken from two websites (google scholar and PubMed).

Conclusion:

Most of the patients were satisfied with their experience with spinal anesthesia although there was a higher frequency of postoperative backache.