Articles Tagged With: delivery
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Premature Rupture of Membranes Revisited
An individual participant data meta-analysis from Australia suggests that expectant management of patients with premature rupture of membranes between 34 and 36 weeks, compared with immediate intervention, results in comparable levels of composite neonatal adverse outcomes but in mixed maternal adverse outcomes that balance out in the final analysis.
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Why Are Cesarean Delivery Rates Higher With IVF Pregnancies?
SYNOPSIS: The major factors leading to increased odds of cesarean delivery in all infertile women, but particularly in those who conceive following in vitro fertilization, are advanced maternal age and previous uterine surgery.
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Researchers Examine Possible Capsule Option for HIV Drugs
Early research is focusing on a capsule that can deliver a week’s worth of HIV drugs in a single dose. If confirmed in advanced research, such an option could allow patients to stay compliant with the dosing regimen required to fight the virus successfully.
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Oxytocin Discontinuation
A recent meta-analysis of randomized, clinical trials has shown that discontinuing oxytocin infusion once active labor has been attained in inductions and augmentations of labor will result in a reduction of cesarean delivery and tachysystole, but an increase in the length of labor.
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Postpartum Placement of Hormonal IUD Does Not Affect Breastfeeding Outcomes
Women can avoid unintended pregnancy and successfully breastfeed.
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Adding Azithromycin to Standard Prophylaxis in Non-Elective Cesarean Sections?
Adding intravenous azithromycin to “routine” cephalosporin prophylaxis prior to non-elective cesarean section delivery significantly reduces the risk of postpartum endometritis and wound infection.
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Nurse Wrestles Mother into Position — Injury Results
Caroline Malatesta’s birth experience at Brookwood Medical Center in Birmingham, AL, was the opposite of what she expected. She chose the hospital because it promised a gentler birth experience but, instead, ended up injured from a nurse forcing her into a delivery position that she did not want.
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Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes: When to Deliver?
A recent large multicenter, randomized clinical trial has shown that delivering patients with premature preterm rupture of membranes at 34 weeks, rather than pursuing a watchful waiting approach until 37 weeks, does not afford greater protection against neonatal sepsis.