Obstetric Anesthesia
Accelerator Course
Evidence-Based Practice on L&D
Winter 2025: Enrolling Now
✅ 7 Weeks of Self-Paced Modules
✅ Curated Assignments with Feedback
✅ Curated Readings
✅ 9 Class A CEs
✅ Lifetime Access
In OBAA, you will master the SafePartum Sequence, our signature method for increasing reliability and accuracy of neuraxial procedures, reducing complications, and managing all anesthetic related matters on L&D.
This course is for any healthcare worker who practices OB Anesthesia. If you are a physician, CRNA, SRNA or Anesthesia Assistant ready to take your practice to the next level, this course is for you!
Kind words from past students
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"This course provides a great breakdown of OB Anesthesia care throughout the course of labor and delivery and postpartum. The course utilizes evidence based practice lectures and interactive workbooks to encourage engaged learning."
- Carrie, CRNA
"This is a course that incorporates the whole patient, including obstetrical considerations, not just the technique of neuraxial anesthesia. Well worth your time to take this course."
- Audra, CRNA
"Thank you for the workbook. It was so helpful to have topic summaries to refer to. It was well designed and contained a lot of clinically helpful info!"
- Rachel, MD Anesthesiologist
Do any of these sound familiar?
• Your epidurals and spinals are not 100% reliable.
• You are uncomfortable with advanced neuraxial techniques.
• You have to pass challenging procedures off to someone with more advanced skills, such as neuraxial ultrasound.
• You are not confident in your ability to quickly assess, troubleshoot and make decisions about underperforming blocks.
• You feel self conscious over wet taps, failed or inadequate blocks, and postpartum complications.
• L&D feels overwhelming and stressful.
Instead, imagine how it would feel to…
Meet Dr. Mahendra
Hello, and welcome to the OB Anesthesia Accelerator Course! My name is Vibha Mahendra, and I'm an Obstetric Anesthesiologist based in Southern California.
I completed medical school at Stanford University School of Medicine and Anesthesia Residency and Obstetric Anesthesia Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine & Texas Children's Hospital.
I actively practice Obstetric Anesthesia in Los Angeles and Orange County, CA, and am thrilled to be the primary instructor for the OBAA Course. I founded SafePartum and SafePartum Academy in 2021 to be able to share experience and evidence-based best practices with other practitioners of OB Anesthesia around the world.
I am so glad you are here, and look forward to helping you achieve your professional and clinical goals in the practice of OB Anesthesia!
Our Unique Framework
Introducing the SafePartum Sequence
Bilateral, low maintenance epidural and spinal blocks should be the norm, not the exception. Though OB Anesthesia is so much more than just neuraxial, mastery of clinical OB Anesthesia practices hinges on the ability to place reliable, high quality neuraxial blocks every single time.
What if we helped you expand your toolkit so that you could guarantee success of the vast majority of blocks?
In OBAA, we'll teach you the SafePartum Sequence, our signature path to mastery of the most important skills required to practice OB Anesthesia:
- High quality neuraxial
- Low complication rates
- Rapid assessment and resolution of suboptimal blocks
- Management of OB Anesthesia complications
- Confidence managing L&D Emergencies
OBAA Course Curriculum
✅ 7 Modules divided into individual lesson, designed for self-paced learning
✅ Companion Workbook with weekly assignments, readings and self-assessments to guide you through the course.
✅ SafePartum Case Log Journal
✅ Lifetime access to course materials
✅ Prior approved by the AANA for 9.00 Class A CE Credits (2.00 CE Credits in pharmacology)
Module 1: Setting the Stage for Labor Analgesia
Learn to performed focused, efficient and meaningful maternal and fetal assessments. Integrate your findings into your labor analgesia recommendations, anesthetic technique selection, and medication choice. A mini-course on Electronic Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring - tailored to the needs of the OB Anesthesia provider- is included.
Module 2: The Neuraxial Sequence
Learn the keys to procedural efficiency, safety, and first-pass success. By the end, you will be able to recognize and manage immediate complications, as well as follow our postprocedure techniques to set the patient up for success.
Module 3: Identifying Block Failures
Learn the most efficient and productive methods for assessing and recognizing subtle signs of block failure, maternal, and fetal complications.
Module 4: Troubleshooting & Rectifying Block Failures
Integrate our efficient, evidence-based and fool-proof method for troubleshooting blocks that are performing suboptimally.
Module 5: Cesarean Readiness: A Proactive Approach
Anticipate maternal and fetal changes based on the labor course, and master the art of the intrapartum cesarean delivery.
Module 6: Postpartum Complications
Assess, diagnose and manage postpartum complications with ease, including peripheral nerve injuries, postpartum headaches, and under treated postpartum pain.
Module 7: L&D Emergencies
Practice makes progress. Our L&D Emergencies Module gives you the tools, specifically designed environment, and resources to become confident managing any L&D complication with ease
