| Backache after labour and delivery occurs in half of parturients irrespective of whether they received regional anaesthesia. |
| Many of the risk factors are highly prevalent among parturients, limiting their utility. |
| Few obstetric anaesthetists report experience with fibreoptic intubation of conscious parturients. |
| Private parturients are unlikely to be enamoured by state hospitals, and the already busy state facilities will be confronted with an increased workload of demanding patients. |
| This group had higher rates of cesarean delivery and neonatal ICU admission than did parturients overall, according to results reported in a poster session at the meeting. |
| However, results may have been underestimated because not all parturients with a positive syphilis test result and fetal deaths were investigated. |
