Immersion in water during labour and birth

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2018, Issue 5, 2018, Pages

  Cluett, Elizabeth R ^a   Burns, Ethel ^b   Cuthbert, Anna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; BLEEDING; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LABOR MANAGEMENT; LABOR STAGE 1; LABOR STAGE 2; LABOR STAGE 3; LOW RISK PATIENT; META ANALYSIS; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEWBORN INFECTION; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PARITY; PERINATAL DEATH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VAGINAL DELIVERY; WATER IMMERSION; WATER IMMERSION CHILDBIRTH; WATER IMMERSION LABOR; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; FEMALE; IMMERSION; INFECTION; INJURIES; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PERINEUM; PREGNANCY; UTILIZATION;

WATER;

ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMERSION; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LABOR STAGE, FIRST; LABOR STAGE, SECOND; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; PERINEUM; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; WATER;

EID: 77649086348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD000111.pub4     Document Type: Review

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