Talk:Obstetric anesthesiology

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

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Hi, I'm a 4th year medical student working under WikiProject Medicine. I am working on creating an article for Obstetric anesthesia for class.

Goal for project
Create new page for Obstetric anesthesia (medical specialty). Currently there is no page describing the medical specialty of obstetric anesthesiology. My plan is to:
1. make a page that follows the style manual for 'medical specialty' pages
2. get it to a start level article ( I am using 'Infectious disease (medical specialty)' as an example/template)
3. use simple language (high school level) to describe the field, limiting medical jargon, but explaining it when necessary

Below is my timeline for the project.

Wiki Project Medicine: Workplan/Timeline

Obgyn anesthesia
Week 2: Nov 27th - Dec 3rd
Week 3: Dec 4th – Dec 10th
Week 4: Dec 11th – Dec 17th

Overall Workflow:
1. Look up how to start a new page: [Article Wizard]
2. Check out/ review 2-3 anesthesia textbooks [Miller, baby Miller…]: Obgyn anesthesia summaries
3. Review current online definition and summaries for Ob/gyn anesthesia
4. Compare with pediatric anesthesia page etc. to get example of layout, section headings outline. [update: does not exist either]
5. Start writing, citing references.

Questions to address:
a. Which sections prioritize? [update: use MEDMOS for outline]
b. What resources I intend to look up and when?
c. How decide what things (signs, symptoms, side effects etc) to explicitly include/exclude?
d. Embed additional links to other wiki pages [YES-page on epidural]
e. How ensure avoid doctor-speak and not use jargon

6. Illustrate
7. Submit for peer review
8. Edit per feedback from peer-reviewer

Also: complete peer review for airway management article (Norver Trinidad).

Tentative Timeline:
11/26: Complete Training
11/27: Workplan due by start of WIP #1 [complete]
————————WIP #1: 11/28: 10-11.30
11/29: Workflow item #1-2: Anesthesia textbook review and summarize with references
11/30-12/1 Interviews
12/2: Workflow item #3: Online review: summarize with references
————————WIP #2: 11/28: 2-3.30
12/3-12/6: Workflow items 4-6: Writing with references, illustrate
————————WIP #3: 12/7: 3-4.30
12/8: Workflow item #7: Submit obgyn article for peer review
Peer review Airway Management Article and give feedback
12/9 – 12/10: ……………………………….TBD/catch up time
12/11-12/12 Away for Interviews
————————WIP #4: 12/13: 2-3.30 [SKYPE IN]
12/13-12/14 Away for Interviews
12/15: Workflow item # 8: Make edits to article per peer review feedback
————————WIP #5: 12/16: 3-4.30 FINAL WRAP UP

Thanks!
Kinisem (talk) 06:11, 8 December 2016 (UTC)kinisem

Obstetrical Anesthesia
Peer Review written by:
Norver Trinidad
MD Candidate, UCSF SOM 2017
norvertrinidad@gmail.com

Introduction:
This article titled “Obstetric Anesthesia” is written by Kiran Sembhi, a 4th year medical student at UCSF as a course project for IDS140.60 Expanding WikiProject Medicine. Briefly, Obstetric Anesthesiology is a subspecialty of the field of Anesthesiology that focuses on pain relief and maintenance or restoration of stable condition before, during, and immediately following an obstetric procedure. The distinct training aspects of obstetric anesthesiologists includes a year long fellowship designed to immerse trainees in management of maternal and fetal comorbidities for vaginal deliveries with high-risk conditions, c-sections, antepartum surgery, antepartum fetal surgery and many others.

Other subspecialty options for Anesthesiology include cardiac anesthesiology, pediatric anesthesiology, pain medicine, critical care, neuroanesthesia, regional anesthesia, transplant anesthesia and trauma anesthesia. Because of the complexity of interventions, medical knowledge, and tools used across different medical scenarios, anesthesiology has been subdivided into the aforementioned subspecialties. Many of these subspecialties have been described in detail in distinct Wikipedia articles but many including obstetric anesthesiology have not yet been produced.

Kiran Sembhi has recognized this need and has created a new page for Obstetric Anesthesia. Her goals for the article include making a start level page that follows the style manual for ‘medical specialty using high-school level language to describe the field.

Merits
1. The article uses the style manual for ‘medical specialty’. The article effectively does the following:
a. Describes the scope of the specialty including the most common medical conditions addressed by Obstetric anesthesiologists. It describes the systems-based niche that OB anesthesiologists fill within the hospital
b. Provides a thorough developmental history of the field and includes data on historical founders. It is presented in a chronological and pleasurable to read format that is both entertaining and educational for the reader.
c. Briefly describes the monitoring, diagnostics, procedural and pharmacological interventions, and medical knowledge required pertinent to the field
d. Describes the specific training requirements (general medical training +fellowship) required to be an ACGME licensed obstetric anesthesiologist
2. Limits the use of medical jargon where appropriate. In circumstances where complex medical terminology is unavoidable, the writer appropriately makes use of hyperlinks.
3. Test-read by 2 high-school students who agree that the diction is appropriate for the lay-reader

Critique
1. To fully ascribe to the style manual for ‘medical specialty’ consider including a subsection describing Ethical and medicolegal issues (any ethical issues that are specific to this field). This is of low importance and is not expected to satisfy this peer review. Overall, the contents of the article as it stands is sufficient for readers to understand the scope of the specialty.
2. Under “Treatments”
a. the author intended to use pharmacological instead of ‘psychological’
b. consider separating information on Cochrane review and doulas into a separate paragraph as it describes evidenced based statements as opposed to the list above it.
c. Consider adding 1 sentence on which medications are used for vaginal deliveries as you did for C-sections. I anticipate lay readers will want to know the distinction in the type of anesthesia they will be obtaining in consideration of their pregnancy that's different from other procedures.

Conclusion:
This article is well-written, well organized and includes appropriate amount and level of medical knowledge. As it stands, I am happy to approve the article as peer reviewed. Please use the above critique to only improve upon an already well-written article.

Best,
Norver Trinidad

Kinisem, please note that the article also contained some incorrect language which I have corrected. If there are any questions, please feel free to reach out to me on my talk page. Thanks! TylerDurden8823 (talk) 03:37, 15 December 2017 (UTC)