Sentences with phrase «for obstetric interventions»

What I find so preposterous about MANA's position is that they «demand» scientific, evidence based precision for obstetric interventions, but their stated ethical position is that birth is a mystery and death and bad outcomes have to be accepted in the process of «letting go» and «healing».

C. L. Roberts et al., «Rates for Obstetric Intervention Among Private and Public Patients in Australia: Population Based Descriptive Study,» Br Med J 321, no. 7254 (2000): 137 — 141.

Not exact matches

Advise low ‑ risk nulliparous women that planning to give birth in a midwifery ‑ led unit (freestanding or alongside) is particularly suitable for them because the rate of interventions is lower and the outcome for the baby is no different compared with an obstetric unit.

1.1.2 Explain to both multiparous and nulliparous women that they may choose any birth setting (home, freestanding midwifery unit, alongside midwifery unit or obstetric unit), and support them in their choice of setting wherever they choose to give birth: Advise low ‑ risk multiparous women that planning to give birth at home or in a midwifery ‑ led unit (freestanding or alongside) is particularly suitable for them because the rate of interventions is lower and the outcome for the baby is no different compared with an obstetric unit.

The neonatal outcomes for women giving birth centre or a labour ward were comparable although the levels of intervention were higher in the labour ward groups despite similarities in demographic and obstetric predictors.

No woman needed obstetric intervention in the first hour after admission and no baby required intubation at birth; three babies, however, were admitted to special care (one after caesarean delivery and two for prematurity).

If you have developed some reliable predictive tool for unmanifested complications that are averted by an intervention, then please share it because the obstetric community would desperately love to use it.

Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.

The midwife - led continuity model of care includes: continuity of care; monitoring the physical, psychological, spiritual and social well being of the woman and family throughout the childbearing cycle; providing the woman with individualised education, counselling and antenatal care; attendance during labour, birth and the immediate postpartum period by a known midwife; ongoing support during the postnatal period; minimising unnecessary technological interventions; and identifying, referring and co-ordinating care for women who require obstetric or other specialist attention.

The move to in - hospital obstetric care, which occurred gradually in the last century, added interventions that generally made birth safer for high - risk women but more difficult for many low - risk mothers.

This strategy requires responsive health systems that are equipped with lifesaving commodities and staffed with health workers who can deliver high - quality and timely skilled care, including emergency obstetric care and interventions for small and ill newborn babies.

The authors also continued to say that hospitals should create a welcoming and comfortable birthing environment, as well as address unnecessary obstetric interventions, both of which are often a primary motivation for planned homebirth.

The control of excess weight, especially through lifestyle interventions, should be mandatory not only for improving reproductive and obstetric outcomes, but also for reducing costs derived from the greater consumption of drugs in IVF, failed treatments, maternal and neonatal complications, and metabolic and non-metabolic diseases in the offspring.»

For women who are likely to give birth easily, being in a major obstetric unit may result in interventions that make their birth less straightforward.

«We found compelling evidence for impact of several interventions on preventing stillbirths, especially emergency obstetric care; screening and treatment for maternal infections such as syphilis, and prevention and treatment of malaria,» said Gary Darmstadt, MD, MS, co-author and co-editor of the study and former director of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's International Center for Advancing Neonatal Health.

Stunting is a known risk factor for obstetric complications such as obstructed labor and the need for skilled intervention during delivery, leading to injury or death for mothers and their newborns.