Introduction: The COVID-19 vaccination rate of US pregnant individuals childbearing age was 42.3%, compared to 63.7% the total population as 1/15/2022 despite ACOG and CDC recommendations. Our objectives were determine patients’ perceptions on vaccine safety efficacy around time pregnancy, information sources, compare rates pregnancy other vaccinations. study goal inform providers regarding

Recently, the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) recommended a 30–60 second delay in umbilical cord clamping for all preterm deliveries [1]. Delayed cord clamping in preterm infants has been associated with a greater than 50% reduction in intraventricular hemorrhage and less need for blood transfusions as demonstrated in a recent Cochrane meta-analysis of 10 randomized con...

To the Editor:—In their recent obstetric anesthesia workforce survey, Bucklin et al. observed that anesthesiologists provided regional analgesia for labor more often in 2001 than in 1992 or 1981. Obstetricians provided correspondingly less, with the main decrease occurring between 1981 and 1992. In 1981, obstetricians provided 26, 31, and 46% of regional analgesia in the three sizes of institut...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of lack of progress in labor as a reason for cesarean delivery and to compare published diagnostic criteria with the labor characteristics of women with this diagnosis. METHODS We reviewed medical records and did a postpartum telephone survey to collect data from 733 women who delivered full-term, nonbreech infants by unplanned cesarean between March 1993 ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and severity of complications that occur as a result of uterine artery embolization for leiomyomas. METHODS As part of an ongoing study of outcome after uterine embolization, prospective data regarding complications that occurred in 400 consecutive patients were gathered. Each patient had a minimum of a 3-month interval from the procedure at the time of an...

In the United States, congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection occurs in approximately 1 in 150 live births, leading to permanent disabilities (e.g., hearing loss, vision loss, and cognitive impairment) in approximately 1 in 750 live-born children. A common mode of CMV transmission to a pregnant woman is through close contact with infected bodily fluids such as urine or saliva, especially fro...

To the Editor:—In their recent obstetric anesthesia workforce survey, Bucklin et al. observed that anesthesiologists provided regional analgesia for labor more often in 2001 than in 1992 or 1981. Obstetricians provided correspondingly less, with the main decrease occurring between 1981 and 1992. In 1981, obstetricians provided 26, 31, and 46% of regional analgesia in the three sizes of institut...

We evaluated the added benefit of a comprehensive counseling protocol for first-trimester aneuploidy risk assessment. We performed a prospective cohort study surveying patients referred for first-trimester aneuploidy risk assessment. We compared responses between women who underwent serum testing done in advance of their ultrasound such that their final risk assessment was given to them the sam...

The medical literature demonstrates that inadequate hospital protocols or the lack of consistent protocols for diagnosis, management, consultation, and/or referral can lead to confusion and unnecessary variation in patient care. Incongruities in clinical settings have been repeatedly shown to compromise quality of patient outcomes. Accordingly, the development and adoption of standardized proto...