Improved and standardized fetal heart rate interpretation and management also may have an effect. Increasing women's access to nonmedical interventions ...
In 2011, one in three women who gave birth in the United States did so by cesarean delivery. Cesarean birth can be life-saving for the fetus, the mother, or both ...
Cesarean delivery for active-phase arrest in first stage of labor should be reserved for women ≥6 cm of dilation with ruptured membranes who ...
There are numerous obstetric, fetal, and maternal indications for primary cesarean delivery, some of ...
16 Arrest of labor and abnor- mal or indeterminate fetal heart rate tracing accounted for more than half of all primary cesarean deliveries in the study population.
Induction of labor can increase the risk of cesarean. Before 41 0/7 weeks, induction should not be done unless there are maternal or fetal indications. Cervical ...
Safe reduction of the rate of primary cesarean deliveries will require different approaches to the range of etiologies for cesareans. For example, it is necessary to ...
Additionally, improved and standardized fetal heart rate interpretation and management may have an effect. Increasing women's access to nonmedical ...
... and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM ) released joint guidelines for the safe prevention of primary cesarean delivery.