Planned elective cesarean section: A reasonable choice for some women?

Planned elective cesarean section: a reasonable choice for some women?

Reasons for Elective Cesarean Section in Iranian Women

Copyright © 2014, Kashan University of Medical Sciences. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited. Cesarean delivery (CD) is a lif...

Planned elective repeat caesarean section versus planned vaginal birth for women with a previous caesarean birth.

BACKGROUND When a woman has had a previous caesarean birth, there are two options for her care in a subsequent pregnancy: planned elective repeat caesarean or planned vaginal birth. While there are risks and benefits for both planned elective repeat caesarean birth and planned vaginal birth after caesarean, current sources of information are limited to non-randomised cohort studies. Studies des...

Timing of Elective Cesarean Section

243 Received February 5, 2014; revised and accepted July 2, 2014. Published online July 3

Trial of labor versus elective repeat cesarean section for the women with a previous cesarean section: a decision analysis

In order to reduce the cesarean-delivery rate, more and more pregnant women are offered trials of labor (TOL) after their previous cesarean sections. TOL and elective repeat cesarean section (ERCS) have different risks and benefits. We constructed a decision analysis to explore this issue. Probabilities were derived from literature reviews. Health state utilities were derived from the authors' ...