Ethnic disparities in obstetric anaesthetic care
The Anesthesia Blog
JUNE 10, 2023
The association between ethnicity and outcomes in obstetrics is well known, but there has been little published about its relationship with obstetric anaesthetic care. This new national cohort study of women who gave birth between 2011–2021 from Bamber et al. finds differences between ethnic groups in rates of general anaesthesia received by women who had caesarean births and in rates of neuraxial anaesthesia received by women who had vaginal births (Fig. 1).
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