Department of Obstetric and Gynaecology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Science, Dehradun, Pin code248140 Associate Professor, Department of Obstetric and Gynaecology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Science, Dehradun Pin code248140 Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Science, Dehradun-Pin code248140 PG resident , Department of Obstetric and Gynaecolog...

Background: Some researchers have suggested that when Naegle’s rule (NR) and Dubowitz score (DS) are combined, it could out-perform obstetric ultrasound scan (USS). Others still believe that obstetric USS alone is still effective relative to the combination of NR rule and DS in assessing the gestational age (GA) of babies. Objectives: To determine and compare the GA of babies using obstetric US...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether obstetric complications occur to excess in the early histories of individuals who go on to develop schizophrenia when compared with controls, and to seek clinical correlates of any such excess. DESIGN Contemporaneous maternity hospital records were identified and extracted verbatim, and these extracts evaluated for obstetric complications by two independent asse...

SA Crime QuArterly No. 54 • DeC 2015 * Camilla Pickles is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Child Law, Department of Private Law, University of Pretoria. This article is inspired by recent legal developments in Latin America. In Venezuela, the Organic Law on the Right of Women to a Life Free from Violence (2007) recognises obstetric violence as a form of violence that health personnel infl...

Introduction Risk prediction scores usually overestimate mortality in obstetric populations because mortality rates in this group are considerably lower than in others. Studies examining this effect were generally small and did not distinguish between obstetric and nonobstetric pathologies. We evaluated the performance of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II model in o...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Obstetric anesthesia workload demand in Israel has increased due to both an increase in the requests for labor analgesia and a marked increase in the cesarean delivery rate. We propose a new workload-driven performance indicator, the Obstetric Anesthesia Activity Index (OAAI), to serve as a single denominator of obstetric anesthesia activity to enable direct comparison ...

Intervention Women were allocated to intensive (n=85) or conventional (n=91) treatment. Intensive treatment consisted of provision of information and conversation regarding previous obstetric experiences, feelings, and misconceptions; routine obstetric check ups; and cognitive treatment. A midwife appointment and visits to the obstetric ward were recommended for information about pain relief an...

BACKGROUND Between 0.1 and 0.9% of women develop complications of pregnancy that require admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). The purpose of this study was to review all obstetric patients admitted to the ICU over an 8-year period to determine the causes and outcomes of these admissions and the frequency and causes of maternal mortality. METHODS This retrospective study was based on all...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the frequency of catastrophic expenditures for emergency obstetric care, explore its risk factors, and assess the effect of these expenditures on households in the Kayes region, Mali. METHODS Data on 484 obstetric emergencies (242 deaths and 242 near-misses) were collected in 2008-2011. Catastrophic expenditure for emergency obstetric care was assessed at different th...