Sarcouncil Journal of Medicine and Surgery

Abstract: Regional anesthesia procedures have been used effectively and safely more than general anesthesia for caesarean sections for many years, but general anesthesia is still necessary in clinical statuses of maternal. This study aimed to assess clinical outcomes of pregnant women who performed obstetric surgeries under both anesthesia (regional versus general). Based on our cross–sectional study, a total of 95 pregnant women who undergone to caesarean delivery under both two anesthesia (regional versus general). The data was divided into two groups based on the type of anesthesia, where the first group involved 65 women under regional anesthesia, while the second group included 30 pregnant women who undergone caesarean section under general anesthesia. All data of pregnant women were collected from medical records at different hospitals in Iraq from March 2024 to March 2025. This study was enrolled clinical outcomes of maternal and neonatal, including post–operative complications, pain scores, and maternal satisfaction. Our findings shown that regional anesthesia had higher success that general anesthesia. This study found pain scores got 2.5 ± 1.2, maternal satisfaction got 45 (69.2%), successful Latch within four h had 48 (73.8%), time to ambulation was 10.2 ± 3.1 hours, length of Hospital stay 3.2 ± 0.6 days, at patients underwent to regional anesthesia than 4.8 ± 1.8 patients underwent to general anesthesia including pain scores got 4.8 ± 1.8, maternal satisfaction got 12 (40.0%), successful Latch within four h had 15 (50.0%), time to ambulation was 16.5 ± 4.8 hours, length of hospital stay 3.5 ± 0.9 days.In comparison with general anesthesia, our study shows that regional anesthesia achieves positive outcomes in both maternal and neonatal outcomes, including rise of recovery rate, pain scores decreased, and improvement of satisfaction rate.