Sentences with phrase «elective repeat cesarean»

You also have the option of an elective repeat cesarean delivery, and your provider will help you make this decision.

If a trial of labor is not successful, you will need to undergo a repeat cesarean delivery and will have more risk of complications than with a planned or elective repeat cesarean delivery.

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45 % of American woman are interested in the option of a VBAC, yet 92 % choose an elective repeat cesarean instead.

A discussion of VBAC early in a woman's prenatal care course, if possible, will allow the most time for her to consider options for TOLAC or elective repeat cesarean delivery.

For example, women who achieve VBAC avoid major abdominal surgery and have lower rates of hemorrhage, thromboembolism, and infection, and a shorter recovery period than women who have an elective repeat cesarean delivery (2, 3, 7, 9, 33).

However, although TOLAC is appropriate for many women, several factors increase the likelihood of a failed trial of labor, which in turn is associated with increased maternal and perinatal morbidity when compared with a successful trial of labor (ie, VBAC) and elective repeat cesarean delivery (4 — 6).

Before considering the results of any analysis, it is important to note that the appropriate clinical and statistical comparison is by intention to deliver (TOLAC versus elective repeat cesarean delivery).

Accordingly, potential risks and benefits of both TOLAC and elective repeat cesarean delivery should be discussed, and these discussions should be documented.

Thus, VBAC is associated with fewer complications than elective repeat cesarean delivery, whereas a failed TOLAC is associated with more complications (4 — 6, 24).

The potential risks and benefits of both TOLAC and elective repeat cesarean delivery should be discussed.

If the probability of successful vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) was less than 0.65, elective repeat cesarean was both less costly and more effective than a trial of labor.

Timing of elective repeat cesarean delivery at term and neonatal outcomes.

According to ACOG, pregnancy lasting longer than 40 weeks is not a reason for an automatic elective repeat cesarean.