Maternal position during caesarean section for preventing maternal and neonatal complications

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Cluver, Catherine ^a,b   Novikova, Natalia ^c   Hofmeyr, G Justus ^d   Hall, David R ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c WALTER SISULU UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; APGAR SCORE; BLEEDING; BLOOD GAS; BODY POSITION; BREAST FEEDING; CAREGIVER; CESAREAN SECTION; COST; FULL LATERAL TILT; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HORIZONTAL POSITION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEFT LATERAL TILT; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PH; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RIGHT LATERAL TILT; SATISFACTION; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HYPOTENSION; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OPERATING TABLE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CESAREAN SECTION; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; OPERATING TABLES; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880065318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007623.pub3     Document Type: Review

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