News tagged with cesarean deliveries

Scientists expect C-section rate to keep rising

(AP) -- More women will be giving birth by C-section for the foreseeable future, government scientists said Monday, releasing a study into the causes of a trend that troubles maternal health experts.

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created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Regional differences in C-section rate not a result of maternal request

Fewer than two per cent of cesarean births in British Columbia were a result of maternal request, but the number of cesarean and assisted vaginal deliveries varied widely across health regions in B.C., according to a new ...

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created May 31, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Panel questions 'VBAC bans,' advocates expanded delivery options for women

An independent panel convened this week by the National Institutes of Health confronted a troubling fact that pregnant women currently have limited access to clinicians and facilities able and willing to offer a trial of ...

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created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds sutures cause fewer complications than staples with cesarean deliveries

In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Chicago, researchers will present findings that there were less complications for women, after ...

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created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Good news on multiple sclerosis and pregnancy

There is good news for women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant. A new study shows that pregnant women with multiple sclerosis are only slightly more likely to have cesarean ...

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created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Where physician completed obstetrical residency may provide quality-of-care indicator

A ranking of obstetrics and gynecology training programs based on the maternal complication rates of their graduates' patients found these rankings consistent across individual types of complications, suggesting that these ...

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created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Team finds labor induction need not increase cesarean risk

Contrary to a belief widely held by obstetricians, inducing labor need not increase a woman's risk for cesarean section delivery in childbirth, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and the Stanford University ...

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created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New system monitors fetal heartbeat: Noninvasive technique could prevent complications

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny fluctuations in a fetus’s heartbeat can indicate distress, but currently there is no way to detect such subtle variations except during labor, when it could be too late to prevent serious or even fatal ...

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created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study suggests obese women should not gain weight

For years, doctors and other health-care providers have managed pregnant patients according to guidelines issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). In 1986, ACOG stated, "Regardless of how ...

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created May 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Regional blocks superior to general anesthesia for cesarean section

General anesthesia (GA) is associated with an increased risk of infant intubation and low Apgar scores, relative to regional anesthesia. An analysis of 50,806 cesarean deliveries, published in the open access journal BMC Me ...

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created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study able to predict which cesarean births could cause uterine rupture

In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, researchers will unveil findings that show that by using a sonogram to measure the lower uterine segment (LUS) thickness, ...

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