How can second-stage management prevent perineal trauma? Critical review

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 43, Issue JAN., 1997, Pages 73-84

  Flynn, Paula ^a   Franiek, Janet ^a   Janssen, Patricia ^a   Hannah, Walter J ^a   Klein, Michael C ^a  

^a BC's Women's and Children's Hospitals ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY POSTURE; DELIVERY; DYSPAREUNIA; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; LABOR COMPLICATION; LABOR STAGE 2; MASSAGE; METHODOLOGY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERINEUM; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DISORDER; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE INCONTINENCE;

DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DYSPAREUNIA; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR STAGE, SECOND; MASSAGE; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PERINEUM; POSTURE; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY INCONTINENCE; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0030622401     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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