Prolonged second stage: What is the optimal length?

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 667-674

  Gimovsky, Alexis C ^a   Berghella, Vincenzo ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY POSITION; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; EPIDURAL ANALGESIA; FETUS OUTCOME; FETUS RISK; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABOR STAGE 2; LACERATION; LENGTH OF STAY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NULLIPARA; OCCIPUT POSTERIOR FETAL POSITION; PERINATAL DEATH; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; VAGINAL DELIVERY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRIAL OF LABOR;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR STAGE, SECOND; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRIAL OF LABOR;

EID: 84999873164     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: 15339866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OGX.0000000000000368     Document Type: Review

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