OBJECTIVE To find the clinical and socio-demographic determinants for Hong Kong Chinese women who preferred elective caesarean section. DESIGN Cross-sectional interview survey. SETTING University teaching hospital, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS A cohort of consecutive Hong Kong Chinese pregnant women (n=660) attending a government-funded obstetric unit catering deliveries in the New Territories...

INTRODUCTION Although caesarean section rates have been increasing over the years in both public and private sectors in Hong Kong, there has been a paucity of formal surveys on local trends in such rates. This study aimed to examine the trends in caesarean section rates over a 20-year period at a public regional obstetric unit in Hong Kong using the Robson's Ten-group Classification System. M...

The steady rise in caesarean section rates is an emerging area of concern in mother-child healthcare and a matter of international attention, since the trend is no longer confined to western industrialized countries. Crude and caesarean section-related perinatal mortality and case-fatality rates may well serve as public-health indicators. Monitoring time-trends in caesarean section rates has be...

This study was conducted at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and Family Health Hospital, Accra, Ghana, between April 2000 and January 2001 to compare the efficacy and safety of myomectomy done at caesarean section with the application of a tourniquet with caesarean section without myomectomy. Twenty four patients were recruited into the study. Average haemoglobin of patients both pre and post-operati...

BACKGROUND Caesarean deliveries are on the increase in Greece and around the world. The objective of the present study was to assess the frequency of planned and emergency caesarean deliveries and their socio-demographic predictors in women with singleton pregnancies followed-up from early pregnancy to delivery. METHODS The mother-child cohort in Crete examines a population sample of pregnant...

The trend to deliver with caesarean section has increased in the recent years. The factors affecting this trend need re-consideration. Most of the women would deliver normally after a trial of labour alter previous caesarean section. The obstetricians should abide by ethics in clinical practice, carefully evaluate the indication before every caesarean section, and take an unbiased decision befo...

Objective: To document frequency and identify risk factors associated with early delivery in women who require caesarean section prior to their planned elective caesarean section date. Additionally, we compared the maternal and neonatal outcomes for those women booked for an elective caesarean section who did and who did not require delivery prior to their booked elective caesarean section (BEC...

AIMS To analyze the outcome of trial of scar in patients with previous caesarean section and to assess the fetal and maternal complications after trial of scar. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study was conducted at Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, with 375 pregnant patients who had a previous delivery by caesarean and who had regular antenatal checkup. Data were recorded on special pro-form...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether the obstetric pathways leading to caesarean section changed from one decade to another. We also aimed to explore how much of the increase in caesarean rate could be attributed to maternal and pregnancy factors including a shift towards delivery in private hospitals. DESIGN Population-based record linkage cohort study. SETTING New South Wales, Australia. PAR...

OBJECTIVE To determine the trend and indications for the use of caesarean delivery in our environment. METHOD A retrospective review of the caesarean sections performed at University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital from January 2000 to December 2005 inclusive. RESULTS During the study period, there were 10,097 deliveries and 1192 caesarean sections giving a caesarean section rate of 11.8%. T...