Audit of the Response Time of the Anaesthetic and Surgical Techniques for Crash Caesarean Section

KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anaesthesia; Pregnancy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02314078

2013/1043/D

Details and patient eligibility

About

A decision-to-delivery interval of 30 minutes for category-1 Caesarean section deliveries is the standard of practice recommended by clinical guidelines.

Full description

Our institution established a protocol for category-1 ('crash') CS to expedite deliveries. This retrospective audit evaluated all women who underwent category-1 CS in KK Women's and Children's Hospital from 2010 to 2013.

Enrollment: 390 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 21 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Category One Caesarean Section at KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore between 2010 to 2013.

Exclusion criteria

• No specific exclusion criteria, retrospective audit