The administration of epidurals and spinal aneasthesia is common practice in maternity hospitals across Australia.
This course offers a comprehensive guide to all aspects of epidurals and spinal aneasthesia including but not limited to: pathophysiology, common medications that are used and how these medications can affect the CTG, management and expected observations of a patient with an epidural or spinal and observations.
Key Advantages
- Comprehensive staff reporting allowing administrators to easily generate compliance reports in seconds
- User certification provided upon successful completion
Course Content
- Anatomy
- Indications for epidural or spinal anaesthesia
- Contraindications and relative contraindications
- The difference between an epidural and spinal
- Medications that may be used for epidurals
- Medications that may be used for spinals
- Medications to be used in adverse events
- Preparation
- Epidural analgesia procedures
- Spinal procedure
- Observations
- Electronic Fetal Monitoring (EFM)
- Top ups – continuous epidural
- Possible complications and management
- Removal of the epidural catheter
- Documentation
- Preparation for assessment
- Practice quiz
- Summative quiz
- References and links