Increasing obesity and an older population mean greater complexity and more work, and the Caesarean section rate may continue to rise. Changes in practice are likely to follow nationally in the UK; in particular, we can expect an increase in attempted VBAC. There is a need to restructure the...
Last month, University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine doctors reported the death of a 32-year-old woman who died from a necrotizing wound infection after acaesarean section. Article content Article content Invasive group A streptococcus disease, or IGAS, has made a resurgence in recent decades...
Women with diabetes are receiving increased intervention in pregnancy (earlier delivery, increased Caesarean section rates), but despite this, higher birthweights are being recorded. Improvements in rates of stillbirth seen in the general population are not being reflected in changes in stillbirth or pe...
There is no caesarean surgeon to do that" (Regional Manager, July 22, 2011). At other times, monies were found to have been paid to non-existing providers. Clinical audits in six schemes in the Northern region exposed so much malfeasance. "…we realized that an amount of almost 11 ...
In addition, differences in the practices of obstetric monitoring during pregnancy and provision of resulting interventions, including preterm induction of labour and caesarean section, are likely to effect the rates of preterm births across countries. Unfortunately, we do not have routine aggregate data...
However, the pass rate declined with increasing clinical experience: 1–5 years (98.7%), 6–10 years (98.2%), 11–15 (97.2%), > 15 years (90.5%) (p < 0.001). Midwives with longer years of clinical experience had significantly lower HBB OSCE scores (r = − 0.28...
If somebody has hernia or needs a caesarean section, surgery can be done. Normal deliveries are also covered. If somebody needs laboratory tests, they can be done. Most of the important things that the patients need are covered." Female frontline provider, private hospital F "The advantage ...
There were four reported events in pregnant women: all involved emergency Caesarean section and problems at the time of intubation. All took place out of hours and involved complex patients (two of whom had a BMI >35 kg m−2) and were managed by senior anaesthetists: in two, a consultan...
“Yes, people’s needs are covered. Majority of our patients come here with typhoid and malaria which are covered. If somebody has hernia or needs a caesarean section, surgery can be done. Normal deliveries are also covered. If somebody needs laboratory tests, they can be done. Most of the...
(limited efficacy)—such as low dose aspirin, (iv) entry into trial of novel agents (which appear promising) such as PDE5 inhibitors (eg Viagra) or (v) consideration of expedition of delivery by induction of labour/Caesarean section if fetal compromise (growth or wellbeing) identified, and ...