Volume : V, Issue : XII, December - 2016

MATERNAL SATISFACTION FOLLOWING SPINAL ANAESTHESIA FOR ELECTIVE LSCS.

Fimsy J Bahar, Rammurthy K

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 Patient satisfaction is an important outcome of health care since it is known to influence future uptake of health services and patients’ overall health status.. ?e advantages of regional anaesthesia include an awake mother who can bond immediately with her baby, minimal depression of the newborn, and avoidance of the risks of general anaesthesia (especially failed intubation and aspiration pneumonitis); and spinal anaesthesia specifically has the advantages of its simplicity, small drug dose, low failure rate (about 3%) and rapid onset OBJECTIVE:To evaluate maternal satisfaction following spinal anaesthesia,if they wear able to bond immediately with their babies and weather the parturient will opt for spinal anaesthesia in the future MATERIALS AND METHODS: A prospective questionnaire study was conducted following approval of institutional ethical committee, 200 patients belonging to “American society of Anaesthesiology ” (ASA) grade I & II , aged between 18 to 40 years, who has underwent elective LSCS within 24 hours were selected. All these patients received anaesthesia in an uniform fashion. . Close monitoring for any complication should be done. 24 hours within surgery these patients will be presented with a questionnaire. RESULT: In our study it was observed that the ratio of parturient receiving spinal anaesthesia the first time to not was almost same. Out of 200 patient 5 patients experience pain following spinal anaesthesia of which only one parturient scored above 5 on the visual analogue scale.96% of the patients did not experience any form of discomfort including nausea and vomiting.99% of parturient could immediately bond with their babies and would opt for spinal anesthesia in the future. CONCLUSION: 99.5% parturient were able to bond immediately with their babies .Majority(98.5%) of our patient conveyed that they will opt for spinal anaesthesia in the future. 96% participants scored the anaesthesia good.3% scored it average and the remaining 1 % scored it poor

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FIMSY J BAHAR, RAMMURTHY K, MATERNAL SATISFACTION FOLLOWING SPINAL ANAESTHESIA FOR ELECTIVE LSCS., International Journal of Scientific Research, Volume : 5 | Issue : 12 |December 2016

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