• Int J Obstet Anesth · Nov 2023

    Observational Study

    Analysis of Twitter conversations in obstetric anesthesiology using the hashtag #OBAnes during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    • A Robinson, R B George, G Lim, R Landau, E R Mariano, A Kou, and E E Sharpe.
    • University of Minnesota Rochester, Rochester, MN, USA.
    • Int J Obstet Anesth. 2023 Nov 1; 56: 103918103918.

    Background#OBAnes is the most used hashtag in obstetric anesthesiology. The primary objective of the study was to characterize #OBAnes tweets at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsObservational study of all tweets using #OBAnes between June 30, 2019 and October 19, 2020. A list of 19 topics was compiled to categorize each tweet. All Twitter users were manually assigned into one of 19 Symplur Healthcare Stakeholder categories.ResultsThere were 12 431 tweets with #OBAnes during the study period, posted by 1704 unique users. The top user category was Doctor (n = 1211, 71%) with 9665 (78%) tweets. The top three topics identified within Twitter conversations were neuraxial anesthesia, COVID-19, and general anesthesia.ConclusionsTwitter facilitated thousands of obstetric anesthesia-related discussions during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with most conversations centering on anesthesia type (neuraxial or general anesthesia).Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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