Guidelines for Vaginal Birth After Previous Caesarean Birth

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 164-174

  Martel, Marie Jocelyne ^a   MacKinnon, Catherine Jane ^b   Arsenault, Marc Yvon ^a   Bartellas, Elias ^a   Cargill, Yvonne M ^a   Oaniels, Sue ^c   Gleason, Tom ^a   Iglesias, Stuart ^d   Klein, Michael C ^a   Roggensack, Ann ^a   Wilson, Ann Kathleen ^e   Oavies, Gregory A ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

^b Brantford ON   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

^d NONE   (Canada)

^e NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Induced labour; Misoprostol; Oxytocin; Prostaglandins; Trial of labour; Uterine rupture; Vaginal birth after Caesarean

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL; OXYTOCIN; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; OXYTOCIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BREECH PRESENTATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS MORTALITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; MACROSOMIA; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL OBESITY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; POSTMATURITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REOPERATION; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; UTERUS RUPTURE; VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; TRIAL OF LABOR;

BREECH PRESENTATION; CESAREAN SECTION, REPEAT; FEMALE; FETAL MACROSOMIA; FETAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OXYTOCICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TRIAL OF LABOR; UTERINE RUPTURE; VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN;

EID: 21744462430     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(16)30188-8     Document Type: Article

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