Birth after previous cesarean delivery: Short-term maternal outcomes

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 249-257

  Lydon Rochelle, Mona T ^a   Cahill, Alison G ^b   Spong, Catherine Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cesarean; NIH Consensus Development Conference; Pregnancy outcome; Repeat cesarean section; Trial of labor; Uterine rupture; Vaginal birth after cesarean

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REVIEW; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRIAL OF LABOR; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CESAREAN SECTION, REPEAT; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES, NIH AS TOPIC; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; TRIAL OF LABOR; UNITED STATES; UTERINE RUPTURE; VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN;

EID: 77955014877     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2010.03.004     Document Type: Review

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