Sentences with phrase «from obstetric»

Calculations from obstetric ultrasound scan Enter scan.

«The clinical implications from an obstetric point of view are potentially huge,» says lead study author Arthur «Jason» Vaught, M.D., a maternal fetal medicine fellow at Johns Hopkins.

The California Partnership for Maternal Safety project focused on scaling up safety initiatives to engage 126 California hospitals (with over 250,000 annual births) to improve outcomes from obstetric hemorrhage.

The conduct of this survey provided an alternate viewpoint to that represented by organised consumer groups, a viewpoint that has been absent in the processes guiding the direction of maternity care reform, resultant in a concentration of consumer opinion advocating for a move away from obstetric care in healthy pregnancy.

We compared each of the non-obstetric unit groups (home, freestanding midwifery unit, alongside midwifery unit) with the obstetric unit group in order to establish whether outcomes differed from the obstetric unit group in each of these settings.

And then I got off the mountain and toured a medical facility and halfway house for women suffering from Obstetric Fistula and those two things did more to solidify my view that this pop culture around birth is so elitist and dangerous than the previous 11 years of mothering and being around santicmommies.

His foundation works to provide care to women in the developing world who suffer from obstetric fistulas, a childbirth injury caused by prolonged labor, according to their website.

Not exact matches

This is the modest sum which needs to be invested each year in «social support» to guarantee universal access to drinking water within ten years (1,300 million individuals did not have access in 1997), universal access to basic education (1,000 million people are illiterate), universal access to basic healthcare (17 million children die each year from easily cured illnesses), universal access to adequate nourishment (2,000 million people suffer from anemia), universal access to sanitary infrastructures and universal access for women to gynecological and obstetric care.

When I opened my private practice I was co-located in a midwifery office, the midwives I worked with attracted many women with history of traumatic birth seeking better care and I ended up taking on many clients with traumatic stress symptoms in a subsequent pregnancies and reporting experiences of obstetric violence and / or triggering memories and flashbacks from childhood or earlier life abuses.

In contrast to the claims of homebirth and midwifery advocates, the Netherlands is far from being the ideal model of obstetric care.

From 2003 through 2007, her quarterly column on Current Resources for Evidence - Based Practice appeared simultaneously in Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health and Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing.

We collected data on 79774 eligible women, of whom 64538 were low risk, from 142 (97 %) of the 147 trusts providing home birth services, 53/56 (95 %) of freestanding midwifery units, 43/51 (84 %) of alongside midwifery units, and a sample of 36 obstetric units (figure ⇓).

The proportion of women with a «normal birth» (birth without induction of labour, epidural or spinal analgesia, general anaesthesia, forceps or ventouse delivery, caesarean section, or episiotomy9 10) varied from 58 % for planned obstetric unit births to 76 % in alongside midwifery units, 83 % in freestanding midwifery units, and 88 % for planned home births; the adjusted odds of having a «normal birth» were significantly higher in all three non-obstetric unit settings (table 5 ⇓).

Of the initial sample of 37 obstetric units, five did not agree to participate and were replaced by resampling from within the same stratum, and one failed to establish data collection successfully.

Probably it also arises from a misunderstanding of their role and of the accountability of midwives as well as from an exaggerated idea of what is expected of general practitioners, who despite obstetric training are unlikely to have maintained their skills.

The public attention given to the landmark High Court case taken by Aja Teehan and the coverage of the recent Coroner's inquest in the tragic death of baby Kai David Heneghan in Mayo have dominated the debate and have detracted from the real issues of: (i) Ireland's maternity care system being almost solely obstetric led and (ii) a woman's right to make responsible, informed choices in pregnancy and childbirth.

Women who do not need or want obstetric - led care are using valuable resources and are taking up time and beds from women who need or want a obstetric - led care model

Yet we know from repeated high quality, robust research that midwifery - led care options (as opposed to midwife attended care in obstetric - led units) is the safest model of care for 85 % of women.

Interestingly, 3972 women were excluded from the study, the majority due to obstetric risk (n = 1004).

Method - Women with diabetes in pregnancy were randomised to either expressing colostrum twice per day for no more than 10 minutes, from 36 weeks gestation or standard care by the obstetric and diabetes team.

* Women report difficulties in accessing intermittent monitoring in some obstetric led maternity units due to routine policy and the individual beliefs or perceptions of risk from health care providers.

3) Episiotomy Parameters Linked to Risk for Injury During Birth Emma Hitt, PhD Authors and Disclosures March 8, 2012 — Increased depth and length of episiotomy, as well as increased distance from the midline to incision point, are associated with decreased risk for obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS), according to a new study.

The most recent talk is by Jacqueline Wolf, «From Ether to Epidural: Obstetric Anesthesia in Historic, Medical, and Social Context ``.

The women were recruited from 142 of 147 trusts providing home birth services, 53 of 56 freestanding midwifery units, 43 of 51 alongside midwifery units, and a stratified random sample of 36 of 180 obstetric units.

Switching from planned birth in an obstetric unit to midwifery units was on average cost saving and associated with a non-significant decrease in adverse perinatal outcomes.

For low risk women without complicating conditions at the start of care in labour, the mean incremental cost effectiveness ratios associated with switches from planned birth in obstetric unit to non-obstetric unit settings fell in the south west quadrant of the cost effectiveness plane (representing, on average, reduced costs and worse outcomes).25 The mean incremental cost effectiveness ratios ranged from # 143382 (alongside midwifery units) to # 497595 (home)(table 4 ⇓).

Potential confounding variables including major risk factors for infection, maternal demographic characteristics, obstetric factors, and infant risk factors were also abstracted from the medical record.

The risk status of a pregnancy was defined using a mixture of maternal International Classification of Disease (ICD) codes [19] and individual fields in the SMMIS database, and was based on a 2007 clinical guideline from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) which contained lists of medical and obstetric conditions which indicate increased risk of negative pregnancy outcomes [20].

A review of the effects of emergency obstetric referral interventions, compared to no intervention, included 19 studies from low - and middle - income countries (Hussein 2012).

Where can I find this sort of data available to the public consumer like myself from the traditional obstetric model of care?

Ecorazzi agrees with the claim of «scare tactics,» noting that the AMA resolution states that women who choose to birth at home put themselves at risk of «maternal hemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, eclampsia or other obstetric emergencies,» adding «nothing like taking away choices from people — or scaring the hell out of them into going your way.»

Two randomly assigned study groups of expectant mothers were formed over a 7 - month period (12/94 — 6/95) from three independent, obstetric practices in six clinical offices in and around the Greater Rochester, NY, area.

High quality robust evidence, including the recently published Cochrane Review on midwife - led care, shows that the large majority of women benefit from a Midwifery - Led care model, not obstetric.

One research assistant, who is an experienced lactation consultant, recruited women from the outpatient obstetric clinic.

What was found to be missing from the perspective of the newspaper was a similar organisation representing the position of women satisfied with obstetric care.

The researchers enrolled 56 healthy, newborn infant boys and girls from the postnatal ward and special care baby unit at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Obstetric Wing, University College Hospital.

For 294 women (13.8 %) the birth notifications indicated obstetric referral before the onset of labour, which was an exclusion criterion, and for another 171 (8.0 %) information from the midwives could not be checked against birth notifications because they were not available.

UK data on postpartum hemorrhage, including data from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, were obtained from the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS) survey of hemorrhage - associated peripartum hysterectomy [12].

In some models, midwives provide continuity of midwifery care to all women from a defined geographical location, acting as lead professional for women whose pregnancy and birth is uncomplicated, and continuing to provide midwifery care to women who experience medical and obstetric complications in partnership with other professionals.

Also, the appointment of Dr. Nasir Umar as the Medical Director of National Obstetric Fistula Centre, Bauchi was renewed for four years with effect from April 8; while Dr. Iliasu Ahmed was appointed Medical Director of Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State for initial four years term with effect from April 8.

The appointment of Dr. Aliyu El - Ladan as Medical Director of the National Obstetric Fistula Centre, Katsina, was also renewed for four years with effect from April 8.

Also, the appointment of Dr. Nasir Umar as Medical Director of National Obstetric Fistula Centre, Bauchi was renewed for four years with effect from April 8; while Dr. Iliasu Ahmed was appointed Medical Director of Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State for initial four years term with effect from April 8.

Now, in an editorial in the International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia, sleep researchers from Israel and the United States recommend a new diagnosis, «Gestational Sleep Apnea» (GSA).

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.»

«This technology has the potential to allow just about every woman who is prevented from having children because of her age to have the choice to bear her own genetic offspring,» said Grifo, who insists that the fetuses were developing normally and were done in by unrelated obstetric complications.

Despite advances in obstetric and neonatal care, the prevalence of cerebral palsy has increased from 1998 through 2006 in children born at full term.

To put these figures in context, this amount of health care spending represents one third of the total cost of obstetric care for preeclampsia pregnancies in the U.S. Much of the cost for infants was determined by gestational age, ranging from $ 282,570 at less than 28 weeks to as little as $ 6,013 at 37 or more weeks.

Using data from the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology's (SOAP's) Serious Complication Repository (SCORE) project — a large, comprehensive database that systematically captures delivery statistics and tracks complications — the authors identified more than 257,000 deliveries (including both vaginal and cesarean) where epidural, spinal or general anesthesia was administered during childbirth.

According to a scientist from Perth, Australia (where one of the first studies of mothers with schizophrenia and their offspring has recently been completed), studies have identified obstetric events that can increase the risk of schizophrenia in the offspring by 2 - to 7-fold.

Wake Forest Obstetric Anesthesiology faculty members have research funding from the NIH and have authored many original manuscripts, abstracts and textbook chapters.