Informed consent in obstetrics - a survey of pregnant women to set a new standard for consent in emergency obstetric interventions.

Informed consent is necessary for all medical, surgical and obstetric interventions. Whilst informed consent can be obtained for elective procedures, it is much more challenging to obtain for emergency interventions. It can be difficult for women to understand the need for emergency intervention when pregnancy has been low risk.

Falling admissions to hospital with febrile seizures in the UK.

Objectives: There was a reduction in febrile seizure admissions in Scotland after 2008. Our hypothesis was that a similar trend would be seen in other countries.

Methods: We obtained the number of febrile and non-febrile seizure admissions in England and Scotland 2000-2013 and the incidence of all seizure admissions 2000-2013 in European countries.