OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical and demographic characteristics, rationale for transfer of critically ill obstetric patients to intensive care unit and their management therein. METHODS The observational retrospective case series study was conducted at Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University, Larkana, Pakistan, and comprised critically ill female patients transferred to intensiv...

Expert review panel The Obstetric Brachial Plexus Palsy team at the Royal Children's Hospital is committed to increasing the quality of care provided to these children and is striving to produce OBPP research of international standing. As such, the OBPP team supports this application, which is evidenced by all OBPP team members being on the expert review panel. Hospital and has established an O...

BACKGROUND We examined the risk of hypertensive disorders in relation to maternal depressive and anxiety disorders which were diagnosed before or during early pregnancy in Japanese women. METHODS We reviewed the obstetric records of all Japanese singleton deliveries at ≥ 22 weeks' gestation managed at the Japanese Red Cross Katsushika Maternity Hospital between 2009 and 2014. Potential risk f...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of a continuous quality improvement collaboration at Ridge Regional Hospital, Accra, Ghana, that aimed to halve maternal and neonatal deaths. METHODS In a quasi-experimental, pre- and post-intervention analysis, system deficiencies were analyzed and 97 improvement activities were implemented from January 2007 to December 2011. Data were collected on outco...

OBJECTIVE To identify the association between perinatal/neonatal factors and symptoms of eating disorders among college students. METHODS Four hundred and eight college students (283 women), aged 18 to 23 years old, enrolled in the first semester of a Bachelor of Health Science degree program were included in the sample. Eating disorder symptoms and body image dissatisfaction were assessed wi...

Background: Maternal death reflects the health care system of a country and majority them are preventable. India’s MMR declined to 103 in 2017-19. However, SDG3 targets reducing 30 is still far lot has be done achieve it. Methods: In this retrospective study, 6-year analysis trends maternal mortality for age group, booking status, parity, referral obstetric non-obstetric causes challenges faced...

The study aimed to identify the gynecological and obstetric profile of women with mental disorders; to verify the association between medical diagnosis of mental disorder and correct/incorrect use of contraceptive methods, and verify diagnoses, frequency of hospitalizations and varieties of medication consumed. Participants were 255 women who received care in a Psychosocial Care Service. Data w...

OBJECTIVE To compare the route of delivery among nulliparous parturients with and without an engaged vertex in the early, active phase of labor. METHODS Prospectively, the position of the fetal head was ascertained among nulliparous women at 37 weeks' gestation or more in early, active labor (cervical dilation > or = 4 cm with adequate contractions). Sixteen variables, including maternal demo...