Spinal anaesthesia to caesarean section: Patient satisfaction

Tripti Vatsalya; Vikas Kumar Gupta; Rajni Thakur; Sonal Awasya

doi:10.6026/973206300210459

Spinal anaesthesia to caesarean section: Patient satisfaction

Bioinformation. 2025 Mar 31;21(3):459-462. doi: 10.6026/973206300210459. eCollection 2025.

Authors

Tripti Vatsalya¹, Vikas Kumar Gupta¹, Rajni Thakur¹, Sonal Awasya¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, India.

Abstract

Patient satisfaction on spinal anaesthesia to caesarean section is of interest. Hence, data from 60 female doctors of various disciplines working in Bhopal city who underwent caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia during the last 5 years were included in this study. Factors associated with dissatisfaction were lack of communication and explanations for anaesthesia. Level of satisfaction with pain control was (86.6%). Pre-operative complications which scored highest are intraoperative shivering (10%), post-operative pain (20%) and backache (18.3%). Thus, the overall satisfaction among doctors receiving spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section was significantly high and major contributing factors for dissatisfaction need to be addressed.

Keywords: Spinal anaesthesia; caesarean section; maternal satisfaction.