OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to evaluate the frequency of obstetrical anal sphincter injuries (OASIS) in women undergoing operative vaginal deliveries (OVD) and to assess whether a mediolateral episiotomy is protective for developing OASIS in these deliveries. STUDY DESIGN We performed a retrospective cohort study. Maternal and obstetrical characteristics of the 2861 women who del...

I n current obstetric practice episiotomy is generally taken to refer to an incision of the perineum and vagina to facilitate vaginal delivery. While the most precise definition of this incision is perineotomy, episiotomy is the generally employed terminology and thus is used in this article. The evolutionary background and historical perspective of this procedure have been reviewed extensively...

Objective: To investigate the characteristics of pathogenic bacteria and related risk factors for postoperative infection in episiotomy of puerpera and provide basis for the clinical prevention and treatment of postoperative infection in episiotomy. Methods: The clinical data of 1200 cases of full-term parturient receiving vaginal delivery receing lateral incision hospitalized in obstetrics fro...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and factors associated with episiotomy in a reference center of Pernambuco. METHODS A retrospective cross-sectional study was carried out from January to December 2006 with 495 women who had a normal delivery at the Maternity Center Monteiro de Moraes Integrated Health Amaury de Medeiros (CISAM) University of Pernambuco. Assessed factors were issues prece...

complications and related factors in epithelial zyatvmy primiparous referred to hospitals in tehran: a longitudinal study for three months k khajvy shojaei , a dvaty , f zayeri received: abstract background & aims: episiotomy is one of the most commonly performed procedures in obstetrics approximately 33%of women giving vaginally in 2000 had an episiotomy, but the best technique of episiotomy a...

Abstract Background Episiotomy in Mexico is highly prevalent and often routine - performed up to 95% of births primiparous women. The WHO suggests that episiotomy be used selective cases, with an expected prevalence 15%. Training programs date have been unsuccessful changing this practice. This research aims understand how why practice persists despite shifts knowledge attitudes facilitated by ...

background: post episiotomy pain affects a large number of women after the delivery. the common method for pain relief is using oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. considering the side effects of these medicines, the aim of present study was to compare the effects of indomethacin suppository and mefenamic acid capsule on post episiotomy pain. methods: in a clinical trial study, sixty wo...

Background: Pain is one of the side effects of episiotomy. The virtual reality (VR) is a non-pharmacological method for pain relief. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using video glasses on pain reduction in primiparity women during episiotomy repair.Methods: This clinical trial was conducted on 30 primiparous parturient women having labor at Omolbanin Hospital (Mashhad, ...

Episiotomy consists of incising the perineum to widen birth canal, and its practice was historically introduced in 18th century (1742) by Sir Fielding Ould 1 , an Irish obstetrician, help fetal head delivery difficult births. 2 In 1847, Dubois suggested performing oblique incision perineum, modernly known as mediolateral episiotomy (Figure 2). However, procedure did not gain popularity 19th due...