Position in the second stage of labour for women without epidural anaesthesia

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Gupta, Janesh K ^a   Hofmeyr, G Justus ^b   Smyth, Rebecca M D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

*Labor stage, second; *Posture; Delivery, obstetric *methods ; Female; Humans; Pregnancy; Randomized controlled trials as topic

Indexed keywords

BIRTH CUSHION; BIRTH STOOL; CHAIR; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS HEART RATE; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; LABOR PAIN; LABOR STAGE 2; LATERAL POSITION; LITHOTOMY POSITION; MULTIPARA; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERINATAL DEATH; PERINEUM INJURY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIMIGRAVIDA; RECUMBENCY; REVIEW; SITTING; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRENDELENBURG POSITION;

EID: 77950129827     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002006.pub2     Document Type: Review

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