New labor management guidelines and changes in cesarean delivery patterns

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 217, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 689.e1-689.e8

  Rosenbloom, Joshua I ^a   Stout, Molly J ^a   Tuuli, Methodius G ^a   Woolfolk, Candice L ^a   López, Julia D ^a   Macones, George A ^a   Cahill, Alison G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

arrest of descent; arrest of dilation; cesarean delivery; guidelines; labor management; maternal morbidity; neonatal morbidity

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PROSTAGLANDIN;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; LABOR MANAGEMENT; LABOR STAGE 2; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTIPARA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NULLIPARA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME FACTOR; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE; DYSTOCIA; LABOR; LABOR COMPLICATION; LABOR INDUCTION; LABOR STAGE 1; ODDS RATIO; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL INFECTION; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT STUDIES; DYSTOCIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR STAGE, FIRST; LABOR, INDUCED; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; ODDS RATIO; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUERPERAL INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85038130068     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: 10976868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2017.10.007     Document Type: Article

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