The University Clinical Center Tuzla hosted the Fourth School of Obstetrics Anesthesia that is organized in the framework of the cooperation between our hospital and the non- profit organization Kybele.During their visit to Tuzla, Kybele team members will as before provide hands-on training in obstetric anesthesia techniques, with emphasis on using regional anesthesia and analgesia during labor and delivery, for our team of anesthesiologists. Dr Veličković expressed his satisfaction with the number of births in which epidural or spinal anesthesia was used at the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Clinical Center Tuzla.
Head of anesthesia Prim.Dr. Senida Keser said that in one and a half year period 15% of women chooses to get anesthesia during childbirth and the procedure is gaining more interest every day among women.
In addition to practical training, the participants had an opportunity to hear professional lecturing in this medical field.
Difficult / Failed Intubation in an OB Patient was lecture by Dr.Gillian Abir, Clinical Associate Professor at Department of Anesthesiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
The second lecture Single Shot Spinal for Labor Analgesia gave Dr. Ivan Velickovic, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Department of Anesthesiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
MDMA (ecstasy) intoxication was interesting lecture by Dr. Aida Khizkiyayeva from Department of Anesthesiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn NY, USA.
Dr. Annekay Forbes from Department of Anesthesiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn NY, USA talked about cocaine intoxication.