• O Breton, F Vial, J Feugeas, K Podrez, K Hosseini, S Boileau, P Guerci, H Bouaziz, Les membres du bureau de l’Institut lorrain d'anesthésie-réanimation (Ilar), F Aubert, G Audibert, J Borgo, Y Chalot, F Didelot, T Fuchs-Buder, J Hotton, E Junke, J -M Lalot, M -R Losser, and A Pierron.
• Service d'anesthésie-réanimation, maternité régionale de Nancy, 10, rue du Docteur-Heydenreich, 54000 Nancy, France.
• Ann Fr Anesth Reanim. 2014 Nov 1;33(11):581-6.

ObjectivesEvaluation of the acceptability of complications related to obstetrical epidural analgesia in two populations, parturients and anesthesiologists.Study DesignProspective, transversal, single center study.Materials And MethodsEvaluation of the acceptability of complications associated with obstetric epidural analgesia performed using a questionnaire of six clinical scenarii in two populations: parturients cared at the University maternity of Nancy and anesthesiologists of Lorraine. Patients were interviewed by an anesthesiologist, physicians via Internet. Acceptability was assessed using two tools, the absolute acceptability with a visual analog scale and the relative acceptability obtained by classifying clinical scenario against each other, in ascending order of acceptability.ResultsOne hundred and forty-six parturients and 87 anesthetists assessed the acceptability of the different scenarios. The three less serious scenarios (hypotension, failure, dural tap) were acceptable for both populations. One case (spinal hematoma) was unacceptable for parturients. Three cases of varying severity (failure, dural tap, plexus injury with sequelae) were judged significantly less acceptable by patients than physicians (5.9 vs. 7.9 [P<0.001], 5.75 vs. 8.1 [P<0.01], 4.1 vs. 5.1 [P=0.035]). Multivariate analysis did not show any predictive factor of acceptability in both populations.ConclusionIn this study, the overall acceptability of the inherent complications of epidural analgesia was good in the two populations. It was essentially based on the notion of severity and preventability. A large interindividual variability was observed and a better acceptance by the anesthesiologists.Copyright © 2014 Société française d’anesthésie et de réanimation (Sfar). Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.

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