• Emilia Guasch, Nicolas Brogly, Frederic J Mercier, Alexander Ioscovich, Carolyn F Weiniger, Nuala Lucas, Dominique Chassard, Peter Kranke, David Whitaker, Goetz Geldner, Olegs Sabelnikovs, and Edoardo de Robertis.
• From the Servicio de Anestesia y Reanimación, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain (EG, NB), Département d'Anesthésie, Hôpital Antoine Béclère (Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris-Sud, AP-HP), Paris, France (FJM), Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University (AI), Department of Obstetrics and Ambulatory Anesthesia, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel (AI), Division of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel (CFW), Labour Ward, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK (NL), Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Hospices Civils de Lyon/University of Lyon 1, Lyon, France (DC), Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany (PK), Department of Anaesthesiology, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK (DW), Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin und Schmerztherapie, Klinikum Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany (GG), Department of Clinical Skills and Medical Technology Academic Staff (OS), Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (OS), Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Riga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia; Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, P.Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia (OS), Division of Anaesthesiology, Analgesia, and Intensive Care, Department of Surgical and Biomedical Sciences (EdR) and Training Program in Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy (EdR).
• Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2020 Dec 1; 37 (12): 1115-1125.

Abstract: An important variability of anaesthetic standards of care was discovered in the obstetric departments of many European Union countries. After discussing this issue in various meetings of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) board and its obstetric subcommittee, European Board of Anaesthesiology of the European Union of Medical Specialists (EBA-UEMS) executive members, ESA obstetric subcommittee members and European experts in obstetric anaesthesiology have participated in the elaboration of this document. This experts' opinion is focused mainly on obstetric patients and safety concerns in terms of minimum standards of practice. An initial bibliographical search was performed in medical databases and general literature, searching for obstetric anaesthesiology standards to select the most important safety issues. After the initial presentation of the project during EBA-UEMS and ESA obstetric subcommittee meetings, participants were asked to review the document; several rounds of revisions were performed by the experts, to reach a common opinion concerning the topics considered central to patient safety in the obstetric setting. After three rounds of revision, a consensus was reached and is presented in this document, which includes the list of topics considered relevant by the involved areas, and the respective recommendations. These recommendations covered some EBA-UEMS strategic key areas, in addition to several clinical aspects of common obstetric practice.

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