Sentences with phrase «low caesarean»

Twelve critical success factors, including «the right attitude, focus, leadership, teamwork, support, and a personal and financial commitment to best practice and continuous quality improvement,» were identified, based on practices at four Ontario hospitals with comparatively low caesarean rates.19 The «right attitude» included taking pride in a low caesarean rate, developing a culture of birth as a normal physiological process, and having a commitment to one to one supportive care during active labour.

A study commissioned by the Canadian health minister suggests that maternal or newborn programmes in Ontario can maintain low caesarean section rates over time, regardless of their size, location, level of care they provide, and population they serve.

Not exact matches

There was a low rate of caesarean section, postpartum haemorrhage and third degree perinatal tears as well as low rates of stillbirth and early neonatal death in this sample of women and babies.

I have experience of working with mums having caesarean births, home births, low tech hospital births and high tech hospital births and with women expecting twins!

«Looking again at the vaginal births after Caesarean (VBAC) figures, with exceptions in a small amount of maternity units, the amount of VBACs taking place around the country as a percentage of overall births is very low.

In a randomised controlled trial comparing community based care with standard hospital care a significant difference in caesarean section rates was found (13.3 % v 17.8 % respectively).29 Planning a home birth30 or booking for care at a midwife led birth centre is also associated with lower operative delivery rates.

The Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands, which did not follow the trend towards steep increases in caesarean sections during the 1990s, 9 have a tradition of perceiving birth above all as a normal physiological process and of valuing low intervention rates.

C - section rates for first time mothers varied from 22.95 % in Sligo General up to 40.15 % in St Luke's Hospital Kilkenny with both units also reporting extremely low vaginal birth of Caesarean rates at 0.93 % and 3.51 % respectively.

The odds of receiving individual interventions (augmentation, epidural or spinal analgesia, general anaesthesia, ventouse or forceps delivery, intrapartum caesarean section, episiotomy, active management of the third stage) were lower in all three non-obstetric unit settings, with the greatest reductions seen for planned home and freestanding midwifery unit births (table 4 ⇓).

Rates were low for caesarean section, postpartum haemorrhage, third degree perineal tears, stillbirth and early neonatal death in this sample of women and babies.

The low emergency caesarean section rate and assisted vaginal birth rate in our study were consistent with the low rate of caesarean section (2.8 %) recorded in the Birthplace in England Study for women who planned a homebirth, 43 and in a South Australian study (9.2 % for planned homebirths v 27.1 % for hospital births).13 A low rate of caesarean section is also consistent with studies of homebirth in the US.36

Induction of Labour: * higher rates of Caesarean Section * increased risk of your baby being admitted to NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) * increased risk of forceps or vacuum (assisted delivery) * contractions may be stronger than a spontaneous labour * your labour is no longer considered «low risk» — less choices in where and how you birth, restricted birth positions, continuous monitoring CTG, time limits for which to labour in.

I could avoid the bright lights of a hospital room, the intermittent care of nurses that I didn't know, an OBGYN busy juggling multiple women's needs, and I would have a significantly lower chance of a caesarean birth.

Exclusion criteria included the following: any history of antepartum haemorrhage or placenta praevia, a previous classical caesarean scar or more than one lower segment caesarean section, any indication of compromise to the baby in utero, growth restriction, larger baby, polyhydramnios, foetal anomaly to include maternal obstetric or medical issues.

There is no evidence to suggest that babies born by caesarean section have a greater or lower risk of developing health conditions.

Change in primary midwife - led care in the Netherlands in 2000 - 2008: a descriptive study of caesarean sections and other interventions among 789,795 low risk births.

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

The low prevalence of BF and EBF in Cyprus, together with the fact that caesarean section rates are currently among the highest in Europe, suggest the need for further research to understand this multidimensional phenomenon and for interdisciplinary policy action to protect, promote and support BF.

A review of good quality research on this subject found that if the twin that will be born first (i.e. is lowest in the womb) is head down there is no good evidence that caesarean section will be safer than a vaginal birth for the mother or babies.

Low - risk women in the study were those who had no known complications — such as a baby in breech or one with a congenital abnormality, or a previous caesarean section.

Thousands of women who underwent home births using midwives had lower rates of medical interventions such as epidural pain relief, forceps delivery and Caesarean section than similar women who give birth in hospitals.

It is uncertain whether there are any differences in maternal or perinatal mortality between caesarean sections performed by non-physician clinicians and by doctors (very low - certainty evidence)(Wilson 2011).

Whether the key outcomes of caesarean section differ between non-physician clinicians and medical doctors was explored in one review that included six studies conducted in low - income countries.

Women who delivered by caesarean section, who had low birth weight newborns (< 2500 g), premature, or hospitalized newborns were excluded from the study.

A systematic review of strategies to reduce the rate of Caesarean birth in low - risk women [12] concluded that no single strategy was uniformly successful in reducing CS but the evidence was weak — suggesting more research is needed to begin to identify effective strategies to reduce CS.

Perinatal mortality, neonatal mortality, or serious neonatal morbidity was significantly lower for the planned caesarean section group than for the planned vaginal birth group (17 of 1039 [1.6 %] vs 52 of 1039 [5.0 %]; relative risk 0.33 [95 % CI 0.19 - 0.56]; p < 0.0001).

The Dutch study's abstract says «Low socio - economic status, unemployment, single household, high parity and prior caesarean were independent explanatory factors for SAMM, although they did not fully explain the differences.»

A low 1 - minute Apgar score is common among premature babies and some babies delivered via abdominal surgery (caesarean section), but this does not mean that your baby will not be fine eventually.

Medical intervention rates included epidural (4.7 %), episiotomy (2.1 %), forceps (1.0 %), vacuum extraction (0.6 %), and caesarean section (3.7 %); these rates were substantially lower than for low risk US women having hospital births.

For low - risk pregnancies and births, women enjoyed better outcomes: reduced Caesarean sections, instrumental deliveries and episiotomies.

«We observed that a multifaceted audit and feedback intervention aimed at health professionals results in a slight reduction in the rate of caesareans for low - risk pregnancies, without adverse effects on maternal and neonatal health,» revealed Nils Chaillet, principal investigator of the QUARISMA trial, researcher at the CHU de Québec - Université Laval Research Centre and professor at Université Laval's Faculty of Medicine.

Dieting combined with physical activity significantly reduced the mother's weight gain during pregnancy by an average of 0.7 kg compared to the control group and lowered the odds of the mother having a caesarean section by about 10 per cent.

The chicken phthalates have also been associated with increased odds of Caesarean section, diminished child intelligence (particularly in boys), attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, later in life, abdominal obesity, altered thyroid function, damaged sperm, and, as we learned this summer, a lower sperm count.

Anita Jewitt Qualified: 2008 Made partner: 2015 Key cases: Recovered # 8.5 m for a child with quadriplegic cerebral palsy following the hospital's delay in expediting his delivery; recovered # 7.4 m for a child who sustained bilateral upper and lower limb amputations as a result of the delayed diagnosis of meningococcal septicaemia; recovered # 6m for a child who suffered from cerebral palsy as a result of the hospital's failure to carry out an earlier caesarean section.

Increasing caesarean section rates among low - risk groups: a panel study classifying deliveries according to Robson at a university hospital in Tanzania

Pelvic dimensions and shapes vary as well among ethnic groups.28 A small pelvis was more prevalent in women with short stature.29 If maternal short stature leads to shortened gestation by increasing the risk of idiopathic preterm labour, then short women had more risk of PTB.30 Short maternal stature was associated with lower uterine volume and blood flow, increasing the risk for fetal grow restriction, cephalopelvic disproportion and caesarean section.29 The effect of ethnicity on gestational length was also reported in a study in the UK.31 Maternal short stature may be associated with a lack of nutrients.

Evaluation of Birthing in Our Community has shown significant reductions in preterm birth, caesarean sections, and low birth weight infants and babies being admitted to the neonatal nursery.