Is there an upper time limit for the management of the second stage of labor?

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 201, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 337-338

  Caughey, Aaron B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FETUS HYPOXIA; HUMAN; LABOR MANAGEMENT; LABOR PAIN; LABOR STAGE 1; LABOR STAGE 2; LACERATION; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MULTIPARA; NEONATAL HEMORRHAGE; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NULLIPARA; OBSTETRICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; PULSE OXIMETER; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SHOULDER DYSTOCIA; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTERINE ATONY; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR STAGE, SECOND; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349402160     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2009.08.001     Document Type: Editorial

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