Dr. Douglas Vaughn continues to provide patient education classes twice a month to give all patients the opportunity to become familiar with analgesic options for labor and delivery. His efforts, in combination with the Team's close working relationship with our obstetric colleagues, have allowed us to provide analgesia for more patients, who are better informed about their analgesic options. We continue to maintain a computerized database of all pertinent information on patients receiving anesthesia or analgesia on Labor and Delivery. This mechanism facilitates the ongoing assessment of patient outcomes and provides patient information for CQI as well as clinical research. Outside of Labor and Delivery, the Section also provides faculty coverage for the Acute Pain Management Service, headed by Dr. Raymond Sinatra.
All residents become proficient in providing care for the routine parturient.
Dr. James Chung continues to coordinate the subspecialty teaching program. Faculty on the labor floor provide daily lectures on obstetric anesthesia topics. Also on Labor and Delivery, Dr. Hakan Attaroglu is examining the effects of analgesia on secretion of hormones involved in initiation and maintenance of labor. Collaborative efforts by those individuals providing acute pain management continue with our colleagues in the AMOR and the SPOR as we all work to improve postoperative analgesia. We are involved in a number of interdepartmental collaborative efforts with our obstetric and gynecology colleagues.