News tagged with delivery rates

Perinatal safety initiative reduces adverse obstetrical outcomes

Having a child is a life event that is equal parts magic and fear. Will the baby be healthy? Will labor and delivery pose challenges? Are there ways to reduce the risk for adverse events? Hospital obstetrical units face these ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Planned home births associated with tripling of neonatal mortality rate vs. planned hospital births

About 1 in 200 women in the US delivers her baby at home, with approximately 75% of these low-risk, single-baby births planned in advance as home deliveries. In a study published online today by the American Journal of Ob ...

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created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study finds that two treatment strategies for severe sepsis show similar survival rates

A comparison of two strategies for treating severe sepsis or septic shock finds that using lactate levels measured in blood samples showed a similar short-term survival rate compared to a treatment regimen using central venous ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study finds home birth safe

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by McMaster University researchers has found low-risk women who have midwives in attendance during birth have positive outcomes regardless of where the delivery takes place.

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created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

ICSI or IVF: Babies born from frozen embryos do just as well

Analysis of the longest running ICSI programme in the United States has found reassuring evidence that babies born from frozen embryos fertilised via ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) do just as well as those born from ...

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