Vaginal birth after Cesarean delivery: Predicting success, risks of failure

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 388-393

  Durnwald, Celeste P ^a   Mercer, Brian M ^a  

^a METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cesarean delivery; Trial of labor; Vaginal birth after Cesarean delivery (VBAC)

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; AMNIONITIS; APGAR SCORE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABOR; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN SCREENING; PELVIS; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERUS RUPTURE; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; LABOR STAGE, FIRST; LABOR, INDUCED; OHIO; OXYTOCICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAL OF LABOR; UTERINE RUPTURE; VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN;

EID: 4043126084     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14767050410001724290     Document Type: Review

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