Forceps: Still an option?

Current Women's Health Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-75

  Gei, Alfredo F ^a   Pacheco, Luis D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cesarean delivery; Episiotomies; Forceps Assisted Vaginal Deliveries; Prenatal care; Skull fractures

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FETUS MORTALITY; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; LABOR INDUCTION; MALPRESENTATION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; REVIEW; SPINE INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TWIN PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; URINE INCONTINENCE; VACUUM EXTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VAGINAL INJURY; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 47749131633     PISSN: 15734048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340408783572024     Document Type: Review

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