Cesarean delivery and prematurity

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

Late motherhood and cesarean delivery.

Over recent decades there has been a considerable increase in the mean age at which mothers in the industrialized world give birth to their first child. For example, since 1990 in the USA, the number of pregnant women aged 45–49 years has increased 190% w2x. Similarly, there is intense debate on the increasing proportion of cesarean deliveries; however, there is little recognition of the connec...