Sentences with phrase «caesarean rates»

UK caesarean rates are around 25 per cent and can carry risks such as infections for the mother and breathing difficulties for the baby.

Higher distances between the call room (where the staff hangs out when they're not treating patients) and the delivery rooms also predicted higher caesarean rates.

Increases in caesarean rates have been attributed by some as an appropriate clinical response to women's preferences about their care, 9 following recommendations that women should have choice, control, and continuity of carer.

Twelve critical success factors, including «the right attitude, focus, leadership, teamwork, support, and a personal and financial commitment to best practice and continuous quality improvement,» were identified, based on practices at four Ontario hospitals with comparatively low caesarean rates.19 The «right attitude» included taking pride in a low caesarean rate, developing a culture of birth as a normal physiological process, and having a commitment to one to one supportive care during active labour.

C - section rates for first time mothers varied from 22.95 % in Sligo General up to 40.15 % in St Luke's Hospital Kilkenny with both units also reporting extremely low vaginal birth of Caesarean rates at 0.93 % and 3.51 % respectively.

The caesarean rate for intended home births was 8.3 % among primiparous women and 1.6 % among multiparous women.

«The American healthcare system is increasingly dependent upon medical interventions to address what is, most often, a normal and safe physiological process,» said Rebecca Benghiat, executive director of the New Space for Women's Health in New York City, where the Caesarean rate has just hit 31 percent of all births.

This includes increased incidence of premature delivery and increased rates of Caesarean section with a 67 per cent Caesarean rate compared to 22 per cent in the general maternity population.

Not exact matches

Most people that choose to birth at home have only chosen after extensive research and feel that the small risk of a serious complication is preferable to the high rate of intervention in a hospital setting (including the 33 % national caesarean section rate.)

Most people that choose to birth at home have chosen this option after extensive research and feel that the small risk of a serious complication is preferable to the high rate of interventions in a hospital setting (including the 33 % national caesarean section rate, 45 % at some local hospitals).

Most people that choose to birth at home have only chosen after extensive research and feel that the small risk of a serious complication is preferable to the high rate of interventions in a hospital setting (including the 33 % national caesarean section rate.)

The rising Caesarean delivery (C - section) rate in the past two decades could possibly be the reason for such findings.

planning birth in an obstetric unit is associated with a higher rate of interventions, such as instrumental vaginal birth, caesarean section and episiotomy, compared with planning birth in other settings

There was a low rate of caesarean section, postpartum haemorrhage and third degree perinatal tears as well as low rates of stillbirth and early neonatal death in this sample of women and babies.

If the baby becomes distressed (this is detected by changes in the baby's heart rate or the presence of meconium, the baby's first stool) but it is already moving down the birth canal, forceps or Ventouse will usually be preferred to a caesarean section; if the baby is not moving down the birth canal and is becoming distressed, a caesarean section may be recommended.

A study commissioned by the Canadian health minister suggests that maternal or newborn programmes in Ontario can maintain low caesarean section rates over time, regardless of their size, location, level of care they provide, and population they serve.

The figures are broken down into first time mothers and mothers who have already given birth and provide important information on the rates of C - sections, instrumental deliveries, episiotomies and vaginal births after Caesareans in Ireland.

In a randomised controlled trial comparing community based care with standard hospital care a significant difference in caesarean section rates was found (13.3 % v 17.8 % respectively).29 Planning a home birth30 or booking for care at a midwife led birth centre is also associated with lower operative delivery rates.

The Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands, which did not follow the trend towards steep increases in caesarean sections during the 1990s, 9 have a tradition of perceiving birth above all as a normal physiological process and of valuing low intervention rates.

The extent of medicalisation in Spain is reflected in some of the highest caesarean section rates in Europe (26.4 % in Catalonia with a 40 % increase over five years); obstetricians have been criticised for not allowing women to participate in decisions about their maternity care.11 Long term morbidity after childbirth can be substantial, 12 and this is particularly related to instrumental and caesarean delivery.

The only units which would have a 0.0 % VBAC rate should be midwife - led units (MLUs), which do not book women who have had a previous Caesarean.

«Further increasing rates of Caesarean section have led to an increase in the incidence of peripartum hysterectomy for morbidly adherent placenta.

Rates were low for caesarean section, postpartum haemorrhage, third degree perineal tears, stillbirth and early neonatal death in this sample of women and babies.

The low emergency caesarean section rate and assisted vaginal birth rate in our study were consistent with the low rate of caesarean section (2.8 %) recorded in the Birthplace in England Study for women who planned a homebirth, 43 and in a South Australian study (9.2 % for planned homebirths v 27.1 % for hospital births).13 A low rate of caesarean section is also consistent with studies of homebirth in the US.36

Induction of Labour: * higher rates of Caesarean Section * increased risk of your baby being admitted to NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) * increased risk of forceps or vacuum (assisted delivery) * contractions may be stronger than a spontaneous labour * your labour is no longer considered «low risk» — less choices in where and how you birth, restricted birth positions, continuous monitoring CTG, time limits for which to labour in.

The Szabos» story has a happy ending, but it shows that with the rising C - section rate — now one in three babies is born via Caesarean — women who want vaginal births sometimes have to fight to get them.

The rates of assisted vaginal births and cesarean sections in this study are comparable to the national data of nulliparous women from 2012 (16.4 % assisted vaginal birth and 17.7 % caesarean section)[19].

If the baby is breech or if his heart rate shows that he is not tolerating labour well, the mother may need a caesarean section.

Labor induction has been increasing since the early 1990s, 1 and the rate is running at about 20 % for pregnancies at term.2, 3 Induction of labor compared with spontaneous labor is associated with adverse maternal outcomes, including at least a doubling in the caesarean delivery rate, 4,5 25 — 50 % increase in instrumental vaginal delivery rate, 3,5 higher postpartum hemorrhage rate, 5 and prolonged labor.5 Neonates born after induced labor are more likely to have low Apgar score and low umbilical cord blood pH. 5

The low prevalence of BF and EBF in Cyprus, together with the fact that caesarean section rates are currently among the highest in Europe, suggest the need for further research to understand this multidimensional phenomenon and for interdisciplinary policy action to protect, promote and support BF.

The non-profit also said the rate of Caesareans is going up in all groups of birthing women.

In the West, have the best rate, 59 %, wondering what the 10 steps say about the timing of the initiation of breastfeeding after a caesarean birth of the complying footstep in the case of a caesarean birth, babies are to be placed skin - to - skin, in the mother's arms within a half an hour of the mother's ability to respond to them.

Thousands of women who underwent home births using midwives had lower rates of medical interventions such as epidural pain relief, forceps delivery and Caesarean section than similar women who give birth in hospitals.

Emergency Caesarean section has become more common in the years since 2000 across Great Britain, and episiotomy rates have remained fairly stable since 2000 [29].

However, there was no difference in caesarean birth rates.

Interestingly, the review found no impact on caesarean section rates.

A systematic review of strategies to reduce the rate of Caesarean birth in low - risk women [12] concluded that no single strategy was uniformly successful in reducing CS but the evidence was weak — suggesting more research is needed to begin to identify effective strategies to reduce CS.

The report found no difference in the rate of caesarean sections.

Lynch concluded «It would be helpful for this system to include more variables surrounding birth outcomes, for example VBAC (vaginal birth after caesarean section), maternal morbidity, setting, lead carer, use of syntocinin for augmentation of established labour and breastfeeding rates.

The WHO reiterates the view of its health experts, who have said since 1985 that the «ideal rate» for caesarean sections is between 10 % and 15 % of births.

It is also a reaction against the highly medicalized climate of hospital births, which, they say, has contributed to a Caesarean - section rate of more than 1 in 3 births in New York City, Westchester County and Long Island combined, with some hospitals having rates above 40 percent.

While the ideal rate of Caesarean sections is disputed, the World Health Organization has suggested 15 percent.

With caesarean, induction and epidural rates at an all time high, what effects might these have on your ability to meet your breastfeeding goals, and what can you do if these interventions are absolutely needed?

Medical intervention rates included epidural (4.7 %), episiotomy (2.1 %), forceps (1.0 %), vacuum extraction (0.6 %), and caesarean section (3.7 %); these rates were substantially lower than for low risk US women having hospital births.

Success rates A quarter of women who attempt VBACs go on to have caesarean births.

Analysis of Canadian PPH data showed that adjustment for caesarean delivery and labor induction, several other maternal characteristics and obstetric practices did not explain the increase in PPH rates though it did explain some of the increase in hysterectomy for PPH [5].

They also illustrate how important it is to ensure caesarean sections are provided to the women in need — and to not just focus on achieving any specific rate.»»

They acknowledge that electronic fetal monitoring increases the rate of instrumental delivery (such as use of forceps) and caesarean section, but argue that increased intervention «may not be entirely undesirable, given that appropriately timed intervention is likely to avoid neonatal hypoxia, seizures, and perinatal death.»

«We have shown that professional training to reinforce skills in obstetric clinical practice and self - assessment are effective in reducing the rate of medically unnecessary caesareans and in improving the quality of care offered to mothers and babies.

«We observed that a multifaceted audit and feedback intervention aimed at health professionals results in a slight reduction in the rate of caesareans for low - risk pregnancies, without adverse effects on maternal and neonatal health,» revealed Nils Chaillet, principal investigator of the QUARISMA trial, researcher at the CHU de Québec - Université Laval Research Centre and professor at Université Laval's Faculty of Medicine.