Pushing/bearing down methods for the second stage of labour

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Lemos, Andrea ^a   Amorim, Melania M R ^b   Dornelas de Andrade, Armele ^a   de Souza, Ariani I ^b   Cabral Filho, José Eulálio ^b   Correia, Jailson B ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA INTEGRAL PROF FERNANDO FIGUEIRA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

APGAR SCORE; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DELAYED PUSHING; DIRECTED PUSHING; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG USE; DYSPAREUNIA; EPIDURAL ANALGESIA; EPISIOTOMY; FATIGUE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FETUS OUTCOME; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE PUSHING; LABOR MANAGEMENT; LABOR STAGE 2; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERINEUM INJURY; PH MEASUREMENT; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS PUSHING; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VALSALVA MANEUVER; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ADULT; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING; FEMALE; META ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TIME FACTOR; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; BREATH HOLDING; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR STAGE, SECOND; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE CONTRACTION; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 84979865178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009124.pub2     Document Type: Review

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