Looking behind the Curtain A recent study of elective induction at term purports to show that it would reduce perinatal mortality without affecting spontaneous birth rates, although it would increase admission to a special neonatal care unit if done before 41 weeks, which contradicts the current belief that
elective delivery at 39 weeks poses no excess risk.
Not exact matches
Elective Induction
at Term Reduces Perinatal Mortality without Increasing Operative
Delivery?
Timing of
elective repeat cesarean
delivery at term and neonatal outcomes.
«A truly
elective delivery should wait until
at least 39 weeks,» says study researcher Uma M. Reddy, MD, MPH of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development in Bethesda, Md..
«
Elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks definitely have some increased morbidity,» says Abdulla Al - Khan, MD, the director and chief of maternal and fetal medicine and surgery
at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey Other factors such as type of
delivery and reason for early term
delivery also affect these risks, he says.
One NIH - funded study looked
at more than 13,000 women who gave birth by
elective cesarean
delivery (C - section)
at 37 weeks or later.
If you have received fertility treatment, childbirth by an
elective or medically prescribed caesarean or by normal
delivery at a hospital or a clinic is covered for the maximum costs of customary charges of one child.
This initiative aims to reduce preterm births and improve outcomes for newborns and pregnant women through an awareness campaign to reduce the rate of early
elective deliveries and providing funding to test enhanced prenatal care approaches to reduce the frequency of premature births among pregnant Medicaid or CHIP beneficiaries
at high risk.