Gender of Anesthesiologist and Time to Labor Epidural

Umeå University

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Labor Pain

Treatments

Procedure: Epidural anesthesia

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05744570

TALW

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this retrospective cohort study is to learn about wether the gender of the anesthetist affects time to epidural anesthesia (EDA) for laboring women . The main questions it aims to answer are:

Is there a gender difference in time to applying EDA
What is the mean waiting for EDA in laboring women in Sweden

Participants (anesthesiologists) will be reviewed according to the time from when the midwife asks for EDA to anesthesiologist register that it was in place

Full description

In certain hospital in Sweden, a module on the most contemporary Obstetric chart system in Sweden allows for registration of time from request of EDA to applied EDA.Time of request is made by the midwife and the Tim of application is registered by the anesthesiologist. Not all hospitals makes these registrations, thus only (i)hospitals having this module and (ii) hospitals willing to participate will be included.

Enrollment

1,200 estimated patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Registered maternal request of epidural/spinal anesthesia anesthesia

Exclusion criteria

Not possible to determine gender by first name or by personal knowledge at participating site
Duplicates
Misregistered time-points of EDA
Not receiving EDA (even if the initial intention was to apply EDA)
Uncertain which anesthesiologist that registered the time-point (more than one anesthesiologist involved in documentation or application)
None/ambiguous documentation of time-points