POLL: How many births/yr and do you have in-house anesthesia / OB providers?

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Specializes in OB, lactation.

How many births does your unit have per year?

Do you have 24/7 in-house anesthesia?

Do you have 24/7 in-house OB provider covereage?

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Our unit has about 3,000 deliveries per year. We have 24/7 in-house anethesia and OB coverage.

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Specializes in LDRP.

2700-3600 births a year (varies-some months have 250 deliveries, october had 314)

yes, 24/7 inhouse anesthesiologist doing just ob anesthesia

yes, 24/7 in house OB coverage.

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Specializes in L&D,Lactation.

We do 6000+ births per year and we have 24/7 anesthesia with a back up and 24/7 OB inhouse and nights/ weekends we have 2 OBs in house

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Specializes in OB, lactation.

Thanks for the feedback and please keep it coming; I'm trying to get an idea of where the cutoff typically is for in-house services so I'd really love to see more responses - just post a number and "yes" or "no" to make it quick if that makes it easier :)

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Specializes in Babies, peds, pain management.

1500+/year

No, on-call (if labor epidural going, they sleep in house)

No, on-call (unless things are going crazy)

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

We do roughly 750-800 deliveries/year (small community hospital with 110 beds)

OB on-call (but not necessarily in-house) 24/7

we also have 24/7 anesthesia coverage on-call for OB (but not necessarily in-house---they are about 10 minutes out at night).

If there is a high-risk labor situation, MDA stays in-house, along with OB. until the patient is delivered. (VBAC being the main high-risk labor that requires in-house OB and MDA).

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We do about 1800 births/year

Anesthesia is in house 24/7

OB doctor in house (our doc in the box) from 8PM/6AM, with all MD's required to live within 30 minutes of hospital

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

Anesthesia inhouse 24/7.

OB residents and someone from each OB practice required to be there 24/7 also.

We do about 5500-6000 deliveries/year.

(700 bed hospital and growing)

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We do approx 400-500 del / year

No to OB anesthesia 24/7 ( or at all for that matter, we don't do epidurals) regular anesthesia for c/s get called in.

No to in house OB/GYN / FP doc (they do deliveries too)- they get called in when necessary, sometimes don't make it if someone precips - but we have 24/7 ER doc who can attend a delivery if we anticipate problems - but usually RN just delivers if OB/FP doc can't make it. The ER doc freak if they have to come up to OB - that freaks out the pt's. *laugh*

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3,000 deliveries per year

yes anesthesia

yes OB coverage

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Specializes in L0-high risk OB, PP/NBN, Med/Surg.

We do 5400 birth per year & this is still a growing community.

We have one anesthesiologist on L&D 24/7. Frequently not enough coverage.

We have one OB group that has an OB or OB & CNM here 24/7, unless the OB is alone & gets called to another hospital for awhile.....

ER docs always "freak out" about doing OB! Big babies!!!

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