Once episiotomy, always episiotomy?

[For or against episiotomy? Against episiotomy].

Episiotomy: techniques and indications.

I n current obstetric practice episiotomy is generally taken to refer to an incision of the perineum and vagina to facilitate vaginal delivery. While the most precise definition of this incision is perineotomy, episiotomy is the generally employed terminology and thus is used in this article. The evolutionary background and historical perspective of this procedure have been reviewed extensively...

[Episiotomy: focusing women's view].

Enough scientific evidences exist for the recommendation of the abolition of the used episiotomia in a liberal way. With objective of identifying the vision of a group of post-partum women in relation to the episiotomy it was done a study of qualitative approach, with the participation of 20 women, in the postpartumn period. It was used for data collection a semi-structured tool applied from Ap...

Population Based Study of Episiotomy

Objectives: To estimate episiotomy rate in a rural population and to find out if higher episiotomy rate is associated with place of delivery and category of health care provider. Design: Population based cross sectional study Setting: Rural population near Chennai. Sample: Included 442 mothers who had vaginal delivery between August 2004 and July 2005. Methods: Cluster sampling was used to sele...

Perineal tears and episiotomy

NURSING STANDARD PERINEAL WOUNDS commonly occur in women during labour (Albers et al 2005). A cross-sectional survey of 101 randomly selected NHS trusts in the UK in the mid-1990s revealed that 83% of low risk primigravidae experienced some form of perineal trauma (Williams et al 1998). Many women also experience labial tears, grazes or vulval varicosities which are painful (Steen 2007). Perine...