Sentences with phrase «higher apgar»

* Doula support has been shown to contribute to lower intervention rates, lower rates of surgical births, shorter labors, babies with higher APGAR scores and higher rates of birth satisfaction.

They have a higher birthweight and higher Apgar scores * (except for American Indians / Alaskan Natives) and are less likely to experience complications requiring medical attention.

Normal performance of primitive reflexes in newborns can be linked to a greater likelihood of having higher Apgar scores, higher birth weight, shorter hospitalization time after birth, and a better overall mental state.

The higher the Apgar score is, the better the condition of the newborn.

The evidence is very clear, continuous support is highly correlated to spontaneous labor, medication - free birth, lower cesarean rates, and higher Apgar scores.

The study claims that babies who had a high Apgar score were likely to have lower ADHD risk, whereas those babies who has a lower score of between one and four, were seen to have a 75 % higher risk of developing ADHD.

The continued use of studies using higher mean or high cut - off 5 min Apgar scores, and a bias of high Apgar score, to advocate the safety of home births is inappropriate.

(So far, she wins the awards for my longest pregnancy, shortest labor, biggest baby and highest APGARs).

They state «Our results who that there is a close relationship between the Apgar score and neonatal viability prognosis and while there is no guarantee that all those pups showing a good Apgar score will automatically survive, it seems clear that the puppies with high Apgar scores are more likely to survive.»

Not exact matches

He is the winner of numerous other honors and awards, including a 1995 «Miracle Maker» award honoring exceptional children's physicians from A.H. Robbins Co., the National Education and Apgar Awards of the AAP, the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Virginia State Council on Higher Education, and recognition as one of the «10 Parenting Leaders» by Parenting Magazine.

Nurse - midwives demonstrated with a high grade level of evidence a lower rate of cesarean sections, lower apgar scores, lower labor augmentation, lower episotomy rates, equivalent low birthrates, lower vaginal operative deliveries, less use of labor analgesia and epidurals, and lower rates of third - and fourth - degree perineal lacerations.

My impression for HBs in general is that midwives tend to skew Apgar scores high and that they tend to deal with PPH reactively as opposed to proactively.

There is simply no way that a higher incidence of neonatal death can not be associated with a higher incidence of low Apgar scores: there must be more near misses in the home birth group.

Home births (relative risk [RR], 10.55) and births in free - standing birth centers (RR, 3.56) attended by midwives had a significantly higher risk of a 5 - minute Apgar score of 0 (P <.0001) than hospital births attended by physicians or midwives.

The three recent papers published in American Journal of ObGyn: Wax metaanalysis (2010), Chervenak (2013), Grunebaum **** (see note at bottom)(Apgar 0, 2013) and the U.K. Birth Place study (2013) report perinatal death rates from homebirth as 3 times or 10 times higher than perinatal death rates in the first week than hospital birth.

We observed higher rates of perinatal deaths, depressed 5 - minute Apgar scores, neonatal seizures, and maternal blood transfusions among planned out - of - hospital births; these persisted after multivariable and propensity - score adjustment.

The posterior position at birth also is associated with a higher risk of short - term complications for the baby, such as lower five - minute Apgar scores, an greater likelihood of needing to be admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit, and a longer hospital stay.

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

Results: Newborns delivered by other midwives or certified nurse midwives (CNMs) in a birthing center or at home had a significantly higher likelihood of a 5 min maximum Apgar score of 10 than those delivered in a hospital [52.63 % in birthing centers, odds ratio (OR) 29.19, 95 % confidence interval (CI): 28.29 — 30.06, and 52.44 % at home, OR 28.95, 95 % CI: 28.40 — 29.50; CNMs: 16.43 % in birthing centers, OR 5.16, 95 % CI: 4.99 — 5.34, and 36.9 % at home births, OR 15.29, 95 % CI: 14.85 — 15.73].

Studies that have claimed the safety of out - of - hospital deliveries by using higher mean or high cut - off 5 min Apgar scores and reviews based on these studies should be treated with skepticism by obstetricians and midwives, by pregnant women, and by policy makers.

Midwives delivering at home or in birthing centers assigned a significantly higher proportion of Apgar scores of 10 when compared to midwives or physicians delivering in the hospital.

Apgar scores, including mean scores and those with high cut - off scores, have been used to support claims that planned home birth is as safe as hospital birth.

Planned out - of - hospital birth also had a statistically significant association with higher rates for 5 - minute Apgar scores of less than 7, neonatal seizures, neonatal ventilator support, maternal blood transfusion, and unassisted vaginal delivery but with lower rates of both admission to neonatal intensive care units and obstetrical interventions, including induction and augmentation of labor, operative vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery, and severe perineal lacerations.

Among newborn characteristics (dimension 4), higher birth weight and lower 1 - min Apgar score were associated with delayed OL; birth weight > 3600 g remained a significant risk factor in a model adjusted for maternal age and BMI.

An even higher risk was noted for babies with similar Apgar scores at 10 minutes.

It is well known that a low Apgar score of between 0 and 6 points at one or five minutes after birth is linked to a higher risk of cerebral palsy (CP) and epilepsy, and that a very low score of between 0 and 3 points at ten minutes indicates a significantly higher risk of CP.

The risk rises with decreasing Apgar score, but even slightly lowered scores can be linked to a higher risk of these diagnoses, according to an extensive observational study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal The BMJ.

We are using the Life Satisfaction Scale (LSIB), Family Care Scale (APGAR), Dependent Scale (Dy), Prejudice Scale (Pr), for 300 high school students in the school randomly sampling survey.

Compared with noneligible families, eligible families had slightly higher maternal age (M = 29.2, SD = 6.2 vs. M = 27.5, SD = 5.4, t = 4.07, p <.01) and 5 - minute APGAR scores (M = 8.96, SD =.39 vs. M = 8.89, SD =.47, t = 2.04, p <.05).