Towards safe practice in instrumental vaginal delivery

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 639-655

  Edozien, Leroy C ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

forceps; instrumental vaginal delivery; operative delivery; patient safety; vacuum extraction; ventouse

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORNEA INJURY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FETUS DEATH; FORCEPS DELIVERY; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INCIDENCE; INFORMED CONSENT; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LABOR COMPLICATION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SKULL FRACTURE; SPINE INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINE RETENTION; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERUS DISEASE; VACUUM EXTRACTION; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

CESAREAN SECTION; EXTRACTION, OBSTETRICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSTETRICAL FORCEPS; PATIENT SELECTION; PREGNANCY; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; TRIAL OF LABOR; VACUUM EXTRACTION, OBSTETRICAL;

EID: 34547111813     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2007.03.006     Document Type: Review

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