[The voice of patients for improving cesarean delivery care]

The incidence of cesarean delivery (CS) is about 15% of birth in Japan in recent years. The patient satisfaction has not been adequately studied during the entire perioperative experience. The purpose of this study is to examine what attention anesthesiologists should pay during anesthesia for CS.

The women who had received CS filled out questionnaire survey a few days or six months after CS.

Their problems included nausea, vomiting, the pain and numbness of the lower extremities during the operation, as well as the pain, delay in facing the child, and painful feeding after the operation.

These observations suggest that to all pregnant women and family, the medical staffs should offer correct information concerning CS at the early stage and should try to make arrangement that the mothers can meet their neonates earlier. The anesthesiologists should also be aware of nausea and vomiting during operation, and offer superior perioperative pain-relief after CS.