Can the Pfannenstiel skin incision length be adjusted according to the fetal head during elective cesarean delivery?

Time between skin incision and delivery during cesarean.

OBJECTIVE To investigate factors influencing skin incision-to-delivery time (including sub-divisions thereof) and the effect of these surgical intervals on immediate neonatal outcome. METHODS A prospective cohort analysis was conducted of all women undergoing cesarean delivery at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, from May 24 to November 2, 2010. Three surgical intervals were evalua...

Elective primary cesarean delivery.

In 1985, the Journal published an article advocating elective cesarean delivery. 1 Although it was provocative, the article had little effect on obstetrical standards. At that time, most efforts within the discipline were focused on arresting the escalation of the rate of cesarean deliveries, 2 which had increased sharply during the preceding decade. Thus, despite that article, the rate of cesa...

Prediction of Gestational Age According to Fetal Femur Length

SUMMARY Determination of gestational age have several usages in obstetrics and gynecology. The relation between fetal femur length and gestational age has determined in this research using real time sonography. 1000 iranian pregnant women between 12-40 weeks of gestation with accuratic last menstrual period and with out the history of diabetes lllellitus, hypertension, renal disease and fetal ...

Skin-to-Skin Contact After Cesarean Delivery

Prophylactic i.v. metaraminol during spinal anesthesia for elective Cesarean delivery.

To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Hillerman et al.1 concerning laryngeal nerve identification during thyroid surgery using the laryngeal mask airway (LMA). Although postoperative voice changes are usually attributed to recurrent laryngeal nerve injury, the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve (EBSLN) is also at risk since it runs close to the superior thyroid artery...