INTRODUCTION The practice of cesarean section is known to decrease the occurrence of long bone fractures. We present here an unusual diaphyseal fracture of the femur of a newborn after cesarean section, the only case observed in our 14 years of practice. CASE REPORT The patient was a 3.4-kg female child born at 38 weeks of gestation. The mother was a primipara and aged 39 years. Ultrasound ex...

OBJECTIVE Postpartum period is physically, socially and emotionally a difficult time for the parents and the baby to become a family. We tried to investigate how the anaesthesia method affects patients who underwent cesarean delivery, as a factor which also affects this period. METHODS Two hundred and six parturients, who underwent elective cesarean delivery in Celal Bayar University Hafsa Su...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE Regional analgesia for labor pain relief is effective and widely used. This study evaluated the controversial association between mode of operative delivery and patient-elective labor regional analgesia. METHODS We retrospectively compared the rates of instrumental vaginal and cesarean deliveries in parturients before the introduction, in the first 15 months after, and in t...

BACKGROUND The transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is an effective method of providing postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing midline abdominal wall incisions. We evaluated its analgesic efficacy over the first 48 postoperative hours after cesarean delivery performed through a Pfannensteil incision, in a randomized controlled, double-blind, clinical trial. METHODS Fifty women unde...

This research want to know the difference between a woman's sexual function after childbirth with Caesarean section on indications second stage dystocia and elective.This study is observational analytic cross sectional design using comparative in M. Djamil General Hospital Networking Hospital. Obtained samples are 26 women cesarean for elective were spawned from term pregnancies that meet inclu...

background: there is evidence that electrocardiographic (ecg) changes occur during elective cesarean section in parturients. these changes, mostly in the form of st-segment depression, have been noted in either regional anesthesia or general anesthesia. we performed this study to compare hemodynamic variables and electrocardiographic changes suggestive of myocardial ischemia following administr...

UNLABELLED We evaluated in this qualitative systematic review the efficacy of increasing central blood volume on the incidence of hypotension after spinal anesthesia for elective cesarean delivery. Randomized controlled trials investigating any method of increasing central blood volume before the initiation of obstetric spinal anesthesia were sought by using MEDLINE (1966-2000), Embase (January...

Issues of HIV infection in women include perinatal care to prevent mother-child transmission and screening for cervical dysplasia. Antiretroviral therapy has been very successful in reducing perinatal transmission rates. Ongoing issues in this setting include absense of relevant pharmacokinetics data for new drugs and formulations, implementation of new resistance testing guidelines, and recent...

BACKGROUND Spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery may cause severe maternal hypotension and a decrease in cardiac output. Compared to assessment of cardiac output via a pulmonary artery catheter, the FloTrac/Vigileo system may offer a less invasive technique. The aim of this study was to evaluate cardiac output and other hemodynamic measurements made using the FloTrac/Vigileo system in patient...

OBJECTIVES The changes in corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH), adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH), cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in maternal and fetal plasma were estimated in two group of women undergoing labour after oxytocin induction, or elective cesarean section to correlate changes in maternal and fetal HPA axis to the different stressor conditions. MATERIALS AND METHODS ...