Asthma and cesarean delivery

Risk of Asthma from Cesarean Delivery Depends on Membrane Rupture.

OBJECTIVE To assess our prospective mother-child cohort and the national registry data to analyze the risk of asthma by delivery mode and whether cesarean delivery before or after membrane rupture affects this risk differently. STUDY DESIGN The Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood2000 is a high-risk birth cohort of 411 Danish children. Asthma was diagnosed prospectively by ph...

Cesarean delivery and prematurity.

The Guidelines Project, an initiative of the Brazilian Medical Association, aims to combine information from the medical field in order to standardize procedures to assist the reasoning and decision-making of doctors. The information provided through this project must be assessed and criticized by the physician responsible for the conduct that will be adopted, depending on the conditions and th...

Cesarean delivery and peripartum hysterectomy.

OBJECTIVE To estimate the national incidence of peripartum hysterectomy and quantify the risk associated with cesarean deliveries and other factors. METHODS A population-based, matched case-control study using the United Kingdom Obstetric Surveillance System, including 318 women in the United Kingdom who underwent peripartum hysterectomy between February 2005 and February 2006 and 614 matched...

Medicalisation and Cesarean Section Delivery

This chapter discusses elaborately the current discourse on medicalisation in society. The debate on medicalisation of human health by medical sociologists has been discussed to understand the different issues regarding use of medical technology and human health. The medicalisation of human body in general has received lot of attention both theoretically and empirically in the last few decades....

Evaluation of Cesarean Delivery