Reducing the risks of a vacuum delivery

Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 301-315

  Vacca, Aldo ^a  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; BIRTH INJURY; CEPHALOPELVIC DISPROPORTION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HUMAN; MATERNAL DISEASE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PERINEUM INJURY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SHOULDER DYSTOCIA; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; VACUUM EXTRACTION; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 33847106827     PISSN: 09655395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0965539506001823     Document Type: Review

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